From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 26 17:40:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA17236 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:40:38 -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 RAA17081 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:40:13 -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 RAA00862; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:40:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:40:04 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Jose M. Alcaide" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Compaq Workstation 5100 ? In-Reply-To: <34F5AB1D.165BCEF6@we.lc.ehu.es> 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message