Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 12:12:56 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.FreeBSD.org> To: "David Alderman" <DAVE@persprog.com> Cc: price@earth.corp.cubic.com, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7850 motherboards Message-ID: <199508311912.MAA17712@freefall.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 31 Aug 95 14:38:49 EST." <1D7C874812@novell.persprog.com>
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>> From: price@earth.corp.cubic.COM >> Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 11:05:00 -0700 >> To: hardware@freebsd.org >> Subject: 7850 motherboards > >> A slew of Pxxx motherboards are hitting the streets that contain built-in pc >i >> adaptec aic7850, I repeat 7850, controllers. These are quality boards with >built-in adaptec bios. They save the PCI consumer a couple of hundred dollars > by not >> having to buy a scsi controller. I have used these boards successfully with >: >> OS2, WinNT, Win95, Netware 3.x-4.x, Dos. >> Linux does not work. FreeBSD 2.0.5 does not work. Consumers would like to >know i[it,if] FreeBSD will support the adaptec aic7850 controller that these b >oards are >> using. dp >> > >Just out of curiosity, what Adaptec controller is aic7850 equivalent >to? Is it a 2940 or a 1522 or something in between? Its an aic7870 without the external memory port and space for only three concurrent commands (the aic7870 handles 16 by default and up to 255 if you hook SRAM up to the memory port - the 3940 controllers do this). > >====================================== >When philosophy conflicts with reality, choose reality. >Dave Alderman -- dave@persprog.com >====================================== -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================
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