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From: jreynold@muffett.ch.intel.com (John Reynolds~)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Adaptec 1505 adaptor for CD-ROM -- supported??
Date: 12 Feb 1996 16:49:34 GMT
Organization: Intel Corporation, Chandler AZ
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Hi folks,

I'm extremely interested in putting FreeBSD on my machine at home (tired of 
OS/2 and IBM's slacker attitude), but I wanna get it on CD-ROM. Thus--I need 
a CD-ROM.

I've been doing research and have found a combo that'll work with my 
budget, but I want to make sure it'll work with FreeBSD too!

Is the Adaptec 1505 16-bit SCSI-II controller card for CD-ROMs
supported by FreeBSD? I noticed in the release notes on the Web that a whole
host of Adaptec SCSI disk controllers are supported, but from the ads I've
read, this 1505 model is just a CD-ROM controller. I plan to hook a Sony 
CDU-76S SCSI-II CD-ROM up to this card (I have an old ISA bus 486-33 and 
already have 2 IDE drives).

Could someone please shed some light on this delimna? Thanks,

-Jr

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