Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 11:27:14 -0800 (PST) From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, osyjm@schizo.coe.montana.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sup: Ok, I'm gonna do it. Message-ID: <199502061927.LAA21985@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <9502061634.AA05513@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Feb 6, 95 09:34:23 am
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> > > > While all this is true, give me a break. A cheap crappy VGA card > > > is peanuts. > > > > But a chieap crappy VGA monitor is NOT.. > > [ ... pricing information on "cheap, crappy hardware" elided ... ] > > Fooey. > > An X based install will be, by it's nature, limited to a multidisk or > CDROM based tool set. > > In both cases, there's no reason that an MDA or text based toolset > can't also be provided, in the first case becuse it shouldn't matter > which install disk of several is actually used, and in the second > because there's room to put the thing there. > > I'd also like to see other binary pieces, if only because they are > available as binary but not as source. This would include smart > multiport board drivers, that someone signs non-disclosure on then > writes and distributes, as well as AIC7xxx drivers (despite the > progress in this area) so that things like the HP with the embedded > controllers can be supported. I know quite a few people that have had success with the HP motherboard aic7770 controllers. The big flareup in this area as I understand was that HP was told that the early revs of this chip would support 16 concurrent active commands. Due to a mask bug, only 4 work properly. This was corrected with the RevE aic7770. I have code I'm testing that can identify early rev chips (they didn't put a version register on chip, so you have to exploit other identifying changes in the chip) > > > Terry Lambert > terry@cs.weber.edu > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================
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