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To: John Schweinfurth <jvschw@ibm.net>, questions@FreeBSD.org
From: sjs1@primenet.com (Scott Story)
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At 05:11 PM 6/10/95 CDT, John Schweinfurth wrote:
>To whom it may concern...
>
>I'm considering giving FreeBSD a tryout.  But before I buy the CD I've  
>got one question pertaining to my HD controller - a Promise DC4030VL2  
>smart/caching IDE.
>
BSD should include a driver in the kernel that detects this drive so you
should not
need this driver. The boot manager shouls coexist with FreeBSD no problem
but i am not a OS2 user so this is not based on personal experience.

>I have drivers for this controller for Unix - docs say ATT SVR 4.0 or  
>SCO unix ver 3.2.x.  What are the chances that this driver will install  
>and operate under the latest FreeBSD release?
>
>Also, my main OS is OS/2 Warp. How well does FreeBSD co-exist with  
>OS/2?  Which boot manager would I use?
>
>TIA
>
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