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Date:      Thu, 26 Feb 1998 12:09:56 -0600 (CST)
From:      Johnathan Raymond Sconiers II <john@Mcs.Net>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: do you support 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.980226120741.27056A-100000@Mars.mcs.net>
In-Reply-To: <199802261802.LAA27404@mt.sri.com>

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> > > > I was reading a few articles about scsi devices and i wanted to know
> > > > does freebsd support Diamond Multimedia's Fireport 40 or the Fireport
> > > > 40 dual?
> > > 
> > > I have a Fireport 40 in my box that works well running 2.2.5-STABLE.
> > > (I'm unsure if it's a dual, since I don't know what that is.  Mine is a
> > > Wide controller, if that helps.)
> > 
> > The dual version is their scsi card that can do both ultra scsi and
> > ultra wide scsi off of the same card. By the way did you right your own
> > device driver? 
> 
> 
> Nope, Stefan Esser wrote all of the NCR drivers, and if I may say so
> myself, I've only one *ONE* problem (and it turned out to be in another
> part of the system that triggered the 'error') in the 2.5 years I've
> owned them, while the Adaptec people have weekly problems.  The
> advantage of having access to the programming documentation has been
> obvious to me.
> 
> (This is not to say that the Adaptec stuff isn't good, but for me the
> NCR has provided me *much* better bang for the buck with almost *zero*
> problems.)
> Nate


Thanks for the info.  


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