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Date:      Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:23:20 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>
To:        stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        sos@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: old hardware donation
Message-ID:  <20031024172238.J83555@shell.inch.com>
In-Reply-To: <20031013150639.T24385@shell.inch.com>
References:  <20031013150639.T24385@shell.inch.com>

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Anyone?  Someone suggested I cc: sos, so I've done so.

Charles

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Charles Sprickman wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I recently retired an old 486-based firewall.  It had some issues with the
> case (my new PCI ethernet cards would not seat correctly in the case).  It
> was running FreeBSD up until the big ATA driver changes, at which point it
> started to panic on boot, so I switched to OpenBSD.
>
> My question is, before I toss the board, PS, proc and memory in the trash,
> would anyone involved with ATA driver development want this stuff?  At the
> time I offered up access to the box via ssh or ssh/serial console, but
> there were no takers.  The problem with the ATA controller (a UMC chip)
> and seems limited to FreeBSD.
>
> Any interested parties may contact me directly.
>
> Feel free to forward this to anyone that might be interested but is not on
> -stable.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Charles
>
> --
> Charles Sprickman
> spork@inch.com
>
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