From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 20 16:26:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA22989 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 16:26:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mercury.webserve.net (allah@mercury.webserve.net [206.96.226.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA22935 for ; Wed, 20 May 1998 16:26:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from allah@mercury.webserve.net) Received: from localhost (allah@localhost) by mercury.webserve.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) with SMTP id TAA14194 for ; Wed, 20 May 1998 19:25:43 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 19:25:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Ray Black To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Hardware Support Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've got one of the dread Compaq Prosignia VS servers with the unsupported NCR 53c710 Fast-SCSI-2 controller integrated with the EISA bus. Why is this board not supported? I mean, it's not as though it were an extremely rare computer, so what are the hardware problems that cause no one in the BSD (or even the Linux) community to support it? I'm far from a great programmer, but if someone would point me to info on how to write device drivers, I'd do what I could to make that sucker work. Also, on a silimar note, it would seem like something that could be ported over from SCO fairly easily (and I'm no trademark or copyright lawyer, so I don't know the ramifications of that), yet it's not been done. What would be the limitations of that move, beyond the legal ones? And (just so you know i am a REAL newbie) what are the significant differences between SCO and BSD? I've got access to SCO, but would really rather load an OS that has some support in the internet community so that I could swap code with folks. Could something I write for a SCO box be run on a BSD machine, and/or vise versa? Anyway, thanks for the ear, and I look forward to hearing back from you! Ray Black, III To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message