From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 10 18:49:36 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA02136 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Mar 1995 18:49:36 -0800 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id SAA02130 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 1995 18:49:34 -0800 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA00681; Fri, 10 Mar 95 19:40:50 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9503110240.AA00681@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: Installation Configuration To: awd@ddg.com (Andrew W. Donoho) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 95 19:40:49 MST Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org, Andres.Vega_Garcia@sophia.inria.fr In-Reply-To: from "Andrew W. Donoho" at Mar 10, 95 03:20:35 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > From previous post about the 3c509b, I understood it's just a 3c509 + > >a bigger buffer, thus the driver should work the same than for the 3c509 > >(yet with a bigger buffer one can expect a better performance). > > It also has "plug'n play" which needs to be turned off with the DOS config > utility: 3c5x9cfg.exe. I was recently poking around on the Microsoft FTP server. They have a more advanced "plug-n-play spec that you could actually code to. I also found a commercial utility that's about 18k (from I don't know who) called "identify" that can probe the bejesus out of IDE drives (going so far as to spit out manufacture dates). Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.