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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
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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