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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 17:05:27 -0500
From: "Norman C. Rice" <nrice@emu.sourcee.com>
To: rick hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com>, Brian Kellogg <briak@wzrd.com>
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Subject: Re: hardware question
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On Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 09:45:32AM -0800, rick hamell wrote:
> 
> > I'm looking at purchasing freebsd but I have a few questions about =
> > hardware it supports.
> 
> 	Please turn off your HTML when sending E-mail. It makes it a lot 
> easier for people to read, AND more likely for us to reply.
> 
> > Does freebsd support ls120 superdisk drives, PCIAudio sound card, and =
> > ISA Cardinal Connecta 56.6 X2 modem?
> 
> 	The LS120 is a probally not. It may be reconized as a second hard 
> drive but I doubt it as it has Windows drivers. 

The LS-120 works fine with FreeBSD 3.0 -- I'm not sure about other
versions. 

wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa
wdc0: unit 0 (atapi): <LS-120 COSM   04     \
  UHD Floppy/0270M09T>, removable, iordy

What do Windows drivers have to do with FreeBSD?
-- 
Regards,
Norman C. Rice, Jr.

> The PCI Audio card will 
> work if it has one of the 'standard' chipsets, i.e. Soundblaster. I think 
> there were some issues with PCI soundcards. Either way, I'd personally 
> stay away from it. As for the modem, it will work if it's not a Winmodem. 
> If you can jumper set the COM ports, then you'll be home free on it. :)
> 
> 
> 
> 					Rick
> 

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