From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 3 23:10:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA23575 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 23:10:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA23568 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 23:10:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA14817; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 23:10:33 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 23:10:33 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: "Reginald S. Perry" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Device Drivers In-Reply-To: <199702010705.XAA06316@miles.aa.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, Reginald S. Perry wrote: > This is rather curious. I went to http://www.dandelion.com/Linux/ and > saw this: > > Linux BusLogic Driver -- FlashPoint Support Now Available Thanks for the update Reginald! I've forwarded this information to the FreeBSD SCSI mailing list were the proper people should get on this. > You can download the source for the Linux driver from this > site. So someone is getting info from Buslogic. I am concerned about > this because I have a Buslogic card in my 486 and I planning to > upgrade my setup this summer. Now I wasnt planning to get a FlashPoint > card, but I could take the above statments as meaning that the FreeBSD > group does not have a very good relationship with Buslogic. Of course > I am not taking it that way. What I am thinking is that the Adaptec > drivers might be better supported on FreeBSD than the Buslogic > drivers. BTW, this _will not_ make me buy an Adaptec board when I > upgrade my system. :-) Well, if we decide to develop FP drivers (this is up to the SCSI Powers That Be), it'll be quite a while before they're written and sufficiently tested to go out into public release. In the meanwhile, earlier BusLogic models, most Adaptec, and NCR/Symbios based cards (NCR/Symbios sample boards, ASUS SC-200, Tekram (??)) are all supported very nicely I might add. (To plug the NCRs: They can be had for ~$100-120 and perform just as well as the Adaptecs. I have one in my box driving 2 quad speed CDROMs and it works like a champ. The driver in 2.2-BETA crashes for some reason, but backing it up to the -ALPHA level works fine.) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major