From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 2 07:53:21 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id HAA12108 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 07:53:21 -0700 Received: from localhost.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA12098 ; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 07:53:17 -0700 Message-Id: <199508021453.HAA12098@freefall.cdrom.com> X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.cdrom.com: Host localhost.cdrom.com didn't use HELO protocol To: davidg@root.com cc: "Andrew V. Stesin" , rsi@garply.com (ResearchSouth), questions@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using freeBSD on High-end P5/PCI/FW-SCSI2 P.C. In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 02 Aug 95 03:35:16 PDT." <199508021035.DAA00502@corbin.Root.COM> Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 07:53:16 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >>Dear William, >> >> >># machine. I would appreciate any information you could provide on systems >># which are definitely/definitely not supported by your current stable releas >e >># of freeBSD (2.1.1 ?) >># >> I'll warn you about systems with Adaptec 7850 SCSI chip >> onboard. While 7870 is supported, 7850 is NOT; >> I know at least 2 people in Russia who have this >> trouble and dissapointment, and they didn't get >> any creative responce. > > Actually, support for the 7850 was added on June 4th, and should work in >the latest 2.1 snapshot. Justin would know better of course. > >-DG According to some people I've talked to, it still doesn't work quite right, but I haven't gotten any usefull debugging info back from people. -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================