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From: "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <lnz@dandelion.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Buslogic BT-946C
Date: 17 Apr 1997 13:14:27 -0700
Organization: Dandelion Digital
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In-reply-to: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of Thu, 17 Apr 1997 09:33:28 -0700
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In article <335650D8.FF6D5DF@FreeBSD.org> "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes:

  Jim King wrote:
  > 
  > I found a place to get these for cheap.  How stable is the driver for
  > the PCI Buslogic adapters?

  Works just fine.  You may have some trouble getting these to work in
  some modern motherboards since they weren't fully compliant with the PCI
  spec, but good luck!

It's only the revision A and B boards that were not PCI compliant, and
those are now truly ancient.  They were more like an ISA board that
happened to fit in PCI bus slots.

You should be in good shape from a hardware compatibility standpoint so long as
you get a hardware revision D, E, or F BT-946C.  I'd check with BusLogic to
make sure you have the latest BIOS/Firmware revision if you acquire one.

		Leonard