From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Aug 31 11:51:13 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id LAA16746 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 11:51:13 -0700 Received: from persprog.com (persprog.com [204.215.255.203]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA16737 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 11:51:05 -0700 Received: from novell.persprog.com by persprog.com (8.6.9/4.10) id OAA26592; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 14:39:02 -0400 Received: from NOVELL/SpoolDir by novell.persprog.com (Mercury 1.12); Thu, 31 Aug 95 14:38:57 +0500 Received: from SpoolDir by NOVELL (Mercury 1.12); Thu, 31 Aug 95 14:38:54 +0500 From: "David Alderman" Organization: Personalized Programming, Inc. To: price@earth.corp.cubic.COM, hardware@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 14:38:49 EST Subject: Re: 7850 motherboards X-Confirm-Reading-To: "David Alderman" X-pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail/Windows (v1.21) Message-ID: <1D7C874812@novell.persprog.com> Sender: hardware-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > From: price@earth.corp.cubic.COM > Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 11:05:00 -0700 > To: hardware@freebsd.org > Subject: 7850 motherboards > A slew of Pxxx motherboards are hitting the streets that contain built-in pci > adaptec aic7850, I repeat 7850, controllers. These are quality boards with built-in adaptec bios. They save the PCI consumer a couple of hundred dollars by not > having to buy a scsi controller. I have used these boards successfully with: > OS2, WinNT, Win95, Netware 3.x-4.x, Dos. > Linux does not work. FreeBSD 2.0.5 does not work. Consumers would like to know i[it,if] FreeBSD will support the adaptec aic7850 controller that these boards are > using. dp > Just out of curiosity, what Adaptec controller is aic7850 equivalent to? Is it a 2940 or a 1522 or something in between? ====================================== When philosophy conflicts with reality, choose reality. Dave Alderman -- dave@persprog.com ======================================