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Date:      Tue, 17 Aug 1999 17:15:06 -0700
From:      dmp@aracnet.com
To:        Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
Cc:        William Melanson <wjm@gate.net>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "PLEASE TAKE ME OFF..."
Message-ID:  <37B9FB0A.60602776@aracnet.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908171324210.563-100000@localhost.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>

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Heiko Recktenwald wrote:
> I got a Pentium yesterday, I didnt slept a night. So it were maybe 3. Its
> not so much faster, than I expected. The overall performance. 16 MB.
> Compared to a 486. Miro videogarabbercard test showed lower transferspeed
> via adaptec 1542 SCSI card. The drive is a of an today incredible size,
> dmesg shows 3.300 transfer speed of the card. The mainboard came with some
> kind of a manual with horses. "P/I-P55TP4XE". Never had such a beast
> before.
> 
> Maybe somebody knows what to do: The SCSI card has a floppy controller.
> The mainboard has a build in floppy controller, there is everything for
> IDE. What do I have to do to have a floppy. Currently I have "floppy"
> disabled in the bios, it boots ok. All data inside....
> 
> (PS.: Are there "floppiesdrives with FIFO" ?)
> 
> One good side of the new board: No pnpcard problems at all, it didnt work
> on the 486.
> 
> Sound, multimedia: what do I do to enable the "pca0" Audiodriver ? I think
> I have it in the kernel, dmesg | grep pca:
> 
> pca0 on motherboard
> pca0: PC audio speaker driver
> 
> But I cant make it run, found no man page covering the question: sh
> MAKEDEV ???????? . Etc pp.......
> 
> I think I should be able to do some echo bla >/dev/audio.
> 
> In Csoundland, it should be something like csound -odev/audio, hope it is
> a little bit faster than windoze multimedia.

I'm not sure what to make of this?  Is it anecdotal or questions?


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