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Date:      Fri, 07 Jun 1996 11:08:34 -0700
From:      "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com>
To:        Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
Cc:        David Alderman <dave@persprog.com>, questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Which dual Pentium motherboard? Cyrix SMP? 
Message-ID:  <199606071808.LAA12249@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 07 Jun 96 18:42:49 %2B0100. <848.834169369@palmer.demon.co.uk> 

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>David Alderman wrote in message ID
><26C84A7DC0@novell.persprog.com>:
>> Moral of the story:  EISA/PCI is fine as long as the floppy controller is 
>> on the motherboard.

>Umm. You must have had a weird card. The Adaptec 1742 (for example)
>has onboard floppy, is an EISA card, and works under FreeBSD. As I

The floppy on my BusLogic BT747s also works great under NetBSD on my
486-based EISA system.  Are you specifically saying that something
specific to a PCI/EISA bus breaks EISA-based floppy controllers?
Because, I haven't seen any problems in a strictly EISA system.

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