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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: 6 Feb 1997 16:27:13 GMT
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les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell) wrote:

>   I put Linux on a box last April or so because I couldn't get the
> FreeBSD available then to run the on-board adaptec controller.

Incidentally on an HP Netserver?  If so, why didn't you ask in the
official FreeBSD support forums?  Be assured, we would have found a
solution for this.  (The problem is known, and there's even an
official workaround in place now, and no, it doesn't require a
different boot floppy, it's still only one.)

The only other Adaptecs that aren't supported at all by now are the
not-really-Adaptec (former Future Domain) controllers.  They are PIO
only, so there has been much less interest for most people writing a
driver than for the AIC7[78]xx chip family.  (There seems to be
somebody taking this part now.)

Sure, Linux' hardware support is wider, that's one of the points pro
Linux, and we (the FreeBSD team) never said otherwise.  But if you
don't get back on us, how should we notice of your problem at all?
Grumbling into your beard wouldn't help much...

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j