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Date:      Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:40:04 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on Compaq Workstation 5100 ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980226173923.817F-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <34F5AB1D.165BCEF6@we.lc.ehu.es>

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On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Jose M. Alcaide wrote:

> Hello folks,
> 
> I would like to know if FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE runs well on
> the Compaq Workstation 5000/5100. In particular I'm concerned
> about the Ultra-Wide SCSI controller integrated in these models;
> I think it's based on a Symbios chip, but I'm not sure.

Some Compaqs use 53c710 chips which we don't support.  It may have a
53c875, though, which we can deal with.  Easiest way to tell is to boot
the boot floppy and see if it finds the adapter under the ncr driver.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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