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Date:      Wed, 18 Feb 1998 11:43:50 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Gary McFarland <gary@netassociates.com>
Cc:        "'Cowan Bowman'" <cowan@mirageport.com>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: SCSI Controller
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980218114142.13769Q-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <01BD3BFB.80FAEBC0@gary.netassociates.com>

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On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Gary McFarland wrote:

> The whole point for me to setup this box is so that I can learn a little
> about FreeBSD.

Good idea.

>  We are using it on our webservers, but I have to depend
> on someone else to do all the upkeep.  BTW We tried the Netware
> offerings (We are primarily a Netware shop), All that the boys in
> Redmond, Wa. Had to offer, and FreeBSD/Apache blew their doors off! 

:-)

> I guess I need to re-compile the generic kernel to support the old SCSI
> board.  Can anyone point me in the right direction?  I have an
> understanding of PC-Architecture as it applies to the other Oses I'm
> just a Unix-Newbie. 

It's pretty easy, actually; see the Handbook at
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook.  The option descriptions are a bit out of
date, but look at the LINT configuration file for more recent additions.
HINT:  Don't remove npx0 and you should be good.

> The box will also have a 3c509 NIC, standard VGA (An old Orchid card),
> WangTek QIC-02 tape and a Digiboard PC/4

Woo, a QIC-02?  We can actually use that! :)  The Digi and the 3com will
work too.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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