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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!nntp.portal.ca!van-bc!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!ddsw1!not-for-mail From: les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: 7 Feb 1997 01:16:51 -0600 Organization: /usr/lib/news/organi[sz]ation Lines: 43 Message-ID: <5dekt3$aiu$1@Venus.mcs.net> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5d7spf$8n6@web.nmti.com> <5d8ikn$801$1@venus.mcs.net> <5dd0p1$72n@innocence.interface-business.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: venus.mcs.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:156460 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2294 In article <5dd0p1$72n@innocence.interface-business.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de> 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.) No, it was an AIC-7850 on an IWILL motherboard. The then current freebsd and Linux boot disks detected it as an aic7xxx and then would go into some continuous error loop (probably because there were fewer SCBs than expected). As for not using the official support forums, why are they so well hidden? A search for drivers via altivista turned up (as I recall) only some unanswered questions about freeBSD versions, but found boot disk images for Linux and the fact that the driver worked in the latest kernel versions (a bit before 2.0). >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... These days it's downright unsociable to not show up in a search using altavista, hotbot, dejanews, etc. I can understand a preference for mailing lists over newsgroups, but if you want people to find answers to their questions, please archive the lists somewhere accessable to the web search engines. While I'm at it, another question: does freeBSD (or it's Linux emulation) support sysV style ioctl's on tty devices (#include termio.h instead of termios.h)? That turned out to save a lot of time with my old programs. Les Mikesell les@mcs.com