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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Is HP Netserver LH compatible with Linux or FreeBSD?
Date: 7 Aug 1996 22:10:47 GMT
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map@marikit.iphil.net (Miguel A.L. Paraz) wrote:

> I need to know if the latest-model HP NetServer LH can work with either
> Linux 2.x or FreeBSD 2.1.5.

They should work fine, but somebody reported lately that he had to
bump the number of supported EISA slots in the EISA controller code
from 8 to 12 in order to get his on-board SCSI controller to work.

(This is FreeBSD, sorry, no opinion for Linux from my side.)
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)