Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 09:58:34 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> To: soward@service1.uky.edu Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7880 driver in SNAP Message-ID: <199602071758.JAA15275@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Feb 1996 11:51:10 EST." <199602071651.LAA25381@neworder.cc.uky.edu>
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> >I just loaded the 2.2-960130-SNAP on a new HP XU 6/150 Pentium Pro. Of >course, it didn't like the HP ethernet card, but it also coughed up some error > >with the 7880 -- still worked though...iozone performance is only about >3Meg/sec which is worse than a 2940+Hawk+P100... I guess I should change the error message so people don't think its as much of a problem. Most motherboard controllers do not have a Serial EEPROM, so you have to rely on the work that the BIOS did. It should work fine. As to speed, a faster processor won't fix a slow disk. >--- >John Soward <a href="http://www.uky.edu/~soward">JpS</a>; >Systems Programmer 'The Midnight sun will burn you up.' >University of Kentucky (NeXT and MIME mail OK) -R. Smith >:::I'm not speaking for UK. I may not even be speaking for myself::: -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================
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