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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD most recent version Date: 21 Aug 1996 07:21:57 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 59 Message-ID: <4vedel$ka6@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <Pine.SOL.3.93.960820214448.4659B-100000@bmec.hscbklyn.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E David Zakai <zakaid99@hscbklyn.edu> wrote: > 1. What is the latest stable version of FreeBSD? 2.1.5 > 2. What is the latest interim (SNAP?) version? 2.2-SNAP-960801 (i might be mistaken for the exact date) > 3. Which one provides support for: > > a. Adaptec AHA-2940UW both > (ultra wide, i.e., SCSI-3 > with 68-pin high density connector) There's no such thing like SCSI-3 yet, at least, not officially released. 20 MHz wide SCSI has already been sanctioned by SCSI-2. > b. Adaptec APA-1460 SlimSCSI Never heard of this, most likely unsupported. > c. Adaptec MiniSCSI Ditto. If it's an AHA7880-based one however, it is supported. (Marketing names are fun to remember for a technician.) > 4. Will FreeBSD work with the latest generation of > external backup tape units (with 2-8 gigabyte capacity), > such as: > > a. Seagate/Conner/Archive TapeStor Travan4 drives If they are SCSI, perhaps. If they are ``floppy tapes'', no. > b. Seagate/Conner/Archive 4mm DAT drives The Archive Python is known to work, though it's not known who puts his label on these drives by time of this writing. :) > c. Hewlett-Packard Colorado Memory Systems Travan4 drives > (SCSI T4000) Perhaps, if they behave like any other SCSI-2 compliant drive. > d. Hewlett-Packard SureStor 4mm DAT drives Yes. -- 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. ;-)