From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 21 10:21:54 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA11263 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 10:21:54 -0800 Received: from spot.lodgenet.com (lodgenet.iw.net [204.157.148.88]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA11250 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 10:20:31 -0800 Received: from jake.lodgenet.com (jake.lodgenet.com [204.124.120.30]) by spot.lodgenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA21291; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 12:18:38 -0600 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jake.lodgenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA21316; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 12:52:54 -0600 Message-Id: <199511211852.MAA21316@jake.lodgenet.com> X-Authentication-Warning: jake.lodgenet.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.2 7/18/95 To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" cc: Mark Newton , Michael Smith , hasty@rah.star-gate.com, scrappy@hub.org, grog@lemis.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding New Hard Drives: A Major Complaint In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 21 Nov 1995 09:24:38 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 12:52:54 -0600 From: "Eric L. Hernes" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk "Jonathan M. Bresler" writes: >On Tue, 21 Nov 1995, Mark Newton wrote: > > > HEY! i got a Kennedy 9612 1/2-inch 9-track tape drive here that >works very well, thank you. > >> [ Hey! At least we'd then have a device that we support which Linux doesn't >> ] > > so we do have a device that we support which Linux doesn't > If you're looking for hardware that works under FreeBSD and not Linux... We've got a couple of compaq desktop units here with integrated pci/ether/vga/ide/kitchen sink... The one running FreeBSD at least finds the pci bus, linux doesn't. I had to pull a pci .c file out of -current, but it at least works. As for the ether, well that's another story, but if_de at least gets close enough where I can hack the driver to get it working.. ;) > >Jonathan M. Bresler jmb@kryten.atinc.com | Analysis & Technology, Inc. > >FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.Org | 2341 Jeff Davis Hwy >play go. | Arlington, VA 22202 >ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life | 703-418-2800 x346 > eric. -- erich@lodgenet.com erich@rrnet.com