From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 24 21:40: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C9E314D07 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 21:40:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA23513; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 00:38:22 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 00:38:22 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Andreas Braukmann Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MCA-support - IBM PS/2 Model 70 to be donated? In-Reply-To: <19991125012900.Y34446@paert.tse-online.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi. I'm the only MCA developer at this point so I guess you're talking to me. (Unless someone else wants to step up and lend a hand. :) On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Andreas Braukmann wrote: > ... I'm in the process of putting my hands on an elderly > IBM PS/2 Model 70 machine. The machine was duty as > a very reliable and stable Netware server for many many years and > was retired just a few weeks ago. > It contains: > the base-unit ;) > i486 > 8 MByte RAM > VGA graphics I've got some problems to work out with the keyboard controller before the graphics console is of much use. > on-board SCSI hostadapter This isn't supported. > 2 * ca. 200 MByte SCSI harddisks > additional Adaptec 1640 (formerly used for an external DDS-drive) The Adaptec is supported. I have my m77 dual booting DOS and FreeBSD right now; DOS is on the onboard SCSI and FreeBSD is on a disk hanging off the Adaptec. > SMC NIC I've got a bus front end that currently has problems; this may be due to the card being broken but is most likely due to something I've missed. I need to pull the card and replace it, and test the front end with a WD8013/A. Is your card an 8003 or an 8013? > If I'll eventually be able to 'aquire' the beast, I would like to > loan (or even donate) the machine to the FreeBSD MCA effort. That probably isn't needed; I have more than enough hardware at this point. (I'll put up a picture of my MCA card collection at some point just to prove it.) What I do need are testers. Get the machine and compile an MCA kernel for it; copy to the boot disks and try installing. I should probably update LINT and GENERIC since the MCA support is somewhat usable at this point. Thanks for the offer of hardware though! -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message