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Hi,

	Have a look at the hardware sections in the FreeBSD Handbook and FAQ on
http://www.freebsd.org/. For the screen card go to the Xfree86
http://www.xfree86.org
web site. Everything should be ok, except I didn't see this tape drive
anywhere. Not
that I was looking very hard.

Steve McCarron wrote:
> 
> My PC uses American Megatrends ver. 1.00.01.CG0T BIOS, dated 11-29-95, with
> a 200MHZ Pentium.  Does FreeBSD 3.3 support the following?
> 
> (1) Adaptec AHA-2940U/AHA-2940UW PCI SCSI controller
> 
> (2) Colorado QIC-3020 tape drive.
> 
> (3) Matrox Millenium PCI display adapter
> 
> (4) 3 Com Fast Etherlink 10/100Mb Bus-Master PCI network adapter
> 
> (5) WEARNES CDD-620 ERc CDROM drive
> 
> (6) Standard IDE/ESDI Hard Disk controller
> 
> If any are not, are there substitute drivers?  Can I use a Linux driver
> source code and recompile somehow?  Thank you very much.

	Taking an uneducated guess, I would say no. The two kernels are
quite different from each other. 

> 
> Steve McCarron
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Regards
Willem Brown

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