From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 18 12:34:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA07365 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 12:34:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA07085 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 12:33:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA13854; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 11:43:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 11:43:50 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Gary McFarland cc: "'Cowan Bowman'" , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: SCSI Controller In-Reply-To: <01BD3BFB.80FAEBC0@gary.netassociates.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Gary McFarland wrote: > The whole point for me to setup this box is so that I can learn a little > about FreeBSD. Good idea. > We are using it on our webservers, but I have to depend > on someone else to do all the upkeep. BTW We tried the Netware > offerings (We are primarily a Netware shop), All that the boys in > Redmond, Wa. Had to offer, and FreeBSD/Apache blew their doors off! :-) > I guess I need to re-compile the generic kernel to support the old SCSI > board. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I have an > understanding of PC-Architecture as it applies to the other Oses I'm > just a Unix-Newbie. It's pretty easy, actually; see the Handbook at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook. The option descriptions are a bit out of date, but look at the LINT configuration file for more recent additions. HINT: Don't remove npx0 and you should be good. > The box will also have a 3c509 NIC, standard VGA (An old Orchid card), > WangTek QIC-02 tape and a Digiboard PC/4 Woo, a QIC-02? We can actually use that! :) The Digi and the 3com will work too. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message