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Date:               Thu, 31 Aug 1995 14:38:49 EST
From:      "David Alderman" <DAVE@persprog.com>
To:        price@earth.corp.cubic.COM, hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:         Re: 7850 motherboards
Message-ID:  <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 pci
> 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 boards 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?
 
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When philosophy conflicts with reality, choose reality.
Dave Alderman  -- dave@persprog.com
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