From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 14 05:01:56 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA13840 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 14 Jun 1995 05:01:56 -0700 Received: from disperse.demon.co.uk (disperse.demon.co.uk [158.152.1.77]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id FAA13832 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 1995 05:01:54 -0700 Received: from post.demon.co.uk by disperse.demon.co.uk id aa07047; 14 Jun 95 12:58 +0100 Received: from flevel.demon.co.uk by post.demon.co.uk id ab19571; 14 Jun 95 12:57 +0100 Received: by flevel.demon.co.uk (V1.16/Amiga) id AA005qi; Wed, 14 Jun 95 12:15:55 GMT Date: Wed, 14 Jun 95 12:15:55 GMT Message-Id: <9506141215.AA005qh@flevel.demon.co.uk> Message-Id: <20d293f9.1d4c0-dev@flevel.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4jX7NkUQ0k00A7_R0O@bruce.osix.oz.au> (from Peter May ) (at Thu, 13 Apr 1995 10:55:12 +1000 (WET)) X-Mailer: //\\miga Electronic Mail (AmiElm 5.42) Reply-To: dev@flevel.demon.co.uk Cc: From: dev@flevel.demon.co.uk To: bruce!peter@osix.osix.oz.au Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, gruner@hprbg5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de, osix!rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD MCA Support? Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi Peter, > > > BTW - If you need a beta-tester for a MCA version of FreeBSD I would be > > > happy to do some testing. > > Yes Please. Armin is currently Alpha testing what we hope to submit to > -core shortly as support for basic Microchannel. It supports ESDI disk > only, no SCSI as yet, and has been tested on both an IBM ThinkPad 700C > (which is a microchannel laptop) and a PS/2 mod 70. > > It's probably time that we sent out a call for testers for the MCA stuff > - we really have only a limited number of machines to deal with here > (I'm in Australia, Armin is somewhere in Europe) and while it gets > production style use at both places it would be good to have some level > of confidence. > > If interested parties would like to send me E-Mail addresses, I will > start a list here for Alpha testing before the 2.1 integration gets into Did anything ever come of this. I haven't heard a thing in about 2 months?? I would really like to get a PS2 version of FreeBSD running. Thanks, Trefor S. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ! Email dev@flevel.demon.co.uk Ami-FileSafe (AFS) ! ! Fourth Level Developments Optical Magneto Drive Systems ! ! Internet Service Providers Dice C distributors ! +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+