From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jun 7 11:23:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA07723 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 11:23:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA07694; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 11:23:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MindBender.HeadCandy.com ([199.238.225.168]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id LAA29263 ; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 11:23:23 -0700 Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.HeadCandy.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA12249; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 11:08:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199606071808.LAA12249@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.HeadCandy.com: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Gary Palmer cc: David Alderman , questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which dual Pentium motherboard? Cyrix SMP? In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 07 Jun 96 18:42:49 +0100. <848.834169369@palmer.demon.co.uk> Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 11:08:34 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >David Alderman wrote in message ID ><26C84A7DC0@novell.persprog.com>: >> Moral of the story: EISA/PCI is fine as long as the floppy controller is >> on the motherboard. >Umm. You must have had a weird card. The Adaptec 1742 (for example) >has onboard floppy, is an EISA card, and works under FreeBSD. As I The floppy on my BusLogic BT747s also works great under NetBSD on my 486-based EISA system. Are you specifically saying that something specific to a PCI/EISA bus breaks EISA-based floppy controllers? Because, I haven't seen any problems in a strictly EISA system. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... Roll your own Internet access -- Seattle People's Internet cooperative. If you're in the Seattle area, ask me how. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------