From owner-freebsd-scsi Sat May 18 06:37:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA01492 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Sat, 18 May 1996 06:37:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailbox.neosoft.com (mailbox.neosoft.com [206.109.1.16]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA01485 for ; Sat, 18 May 1996 06:37:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from uuneo.neosoft.com (root@uuneo.neosoft.com [206.109.1.3]) by mailbox.neosoft.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA05672 for ; Sat, 18 May 1996 08:37:26 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from taronga@localhost) by uuneo.neosoft.com (8.7.5/8.7.4) with UUCP id IAA23533 for scsi@freebsd.org; Sat, 18 May 1996 08:07:27 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from peter@localhost) by bonkers.taronga.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id HAA09575; Sat, 18 May 1996 07:53:51 -0500 Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 07:53:51 -0500 From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Message-Id: <199605181253.HAA09575@bonkers.taronga.com> To: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Who wants a DPT SCSI controller driver? Newsgroups: taronga.freebsd.scsi In-Reply-To: <3059.832374334@critter.tfs.com> References: <199605172152.OAA16143@orodruin.orthanc.com> Organization: none Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >A lot of people use the stuff on the FreeBSD lists as guidelines when >they buy PCs for other uses. There's a couple of fine web pages out there where you can gen up a quote for a damn solid PC for FreeBSD, and I use them to come up with a first cut for a PC for *anything*. When I recommend hardware components, I will normaly just spec the same ones rgrimes did in the systems he built for us for our Internet link. The DPT driver problem has been a real problem for some time, by the way. I ran into it several years back when we got a DPT controller for a System V box and had to run it in MFM-emulation-mode because there was no driver, I couldn't hook a tape drive to it at all, and we quickly sent it back and got a WD7000 (I think... the box has long since been recycled to lower purposes (running Widows for Workgroups) and there's a WD7000 card upstairs in the morgue) which did have a driver.