From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jul 21 18: 8: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from cr743503-a.etob1.on.wave.home.com (cr743503-a.etob1.on.wave.home.com [24.114.23.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79EFB37C7E0 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 18:07:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dennis.favro@utoronto.ca) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (gracie [192.168.0.2]) by cr743503-a.etob1.on.wave.home.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CE50EBBC for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 21:07:53 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: dennis@cr743503-a.etob1.on.wave.home.com (Unverified) Message-Id: Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 21:07:43 -0400 To: FreeBSD-Hardware From: Dennis Favro Subject: Compaq SystemPro/XL (SCSI) -- FreeBSD Support? Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="============_-1247894428==_ma============" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --============_-1247894428==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" I just inherited two Compaq SystemPro XLs. These machines used to run NetWare, but they were given to me stripped of any OS. They've got some plenty weird hardware: Dual 80486s (50MHz) (are dual 486s even supported on *BSD) Two Compaq 32-Bit Fast SCSI-2 Controllers (EISA, looks like they use the NC53C710) Novell Fibre Adapters (?) (something with a Xilinc XC3030 Controller) Compaq 32-bit NETFLEX Network Interface Controller (Token Ring & Ethernet) 64MB RAM in many (many!) banks Onboard SCSI (can't find anything that looks like a SCSI controller on the main board, but there's both a 68-pin external connector and a 50-pin internal connector off the motherboard) These machines would make nice, simple servers, but I don't know where to start as far as driver support goes. The SCSI adapters aren't supported under any BSD (nor under Linux or Intel Solaris, it appears). I can't even begin to figure out the fibre and ethernet cards. I managed to get MS-DOS on these things, and could probably shoehorn NT given a parallel-port Zip drive and several hours of wasted time, but I'd rather one of the BSDs instead. Can anyone help? -- --dennis --============_-1247894428==_ma============ Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Compaq SystemPro/XL (SCSI) -- FreeBSD Support?
  I just inherited two Compaq SystemPro XLs.  These machines used to run NetWare, but they were given to me stripped of any OS.

  They've got some plenty weird hardware:
  • Dual 80486s (50MHz) (are dual 486s even supported on *BSD)
  • Two Compaq 32-Bit Fast SCSI-2 Controllers (EISA, looks like they use the NC53C710)
  • Novell Fibre Adapters (?) (something with a Xilinc XC3030 Controller)
  • Compaq 32-bit NETFLEX Network Interface Controller (Token Ring & Ethernet)
  • 64MB RAM in many (many!) banks
  • Onboard SCSI (can't find anything that looks like a SCSI controller on the main board, but there's both a 68-pin external connector and a 50-pin internal connector off the motherboard)

  These machines would make nice, simple servers, but I don't know where to start as far as driver support goes.  The SCSI adapters aren't supported under any BSD (nor under Linux or Intel Solaris, it appears).  I can't even begin to figure out the fibre and ethernet cards.

  I managed to get MS-DOS on these things, and could probably shoehorn NT given a parallel-port Zip drive and several hours of wasted time, but I'd rather one of the BSDs instead.

  Can anyone help?
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--dennis <mailto://dennis.favro@utoronto.ca>
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