From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 10 13:44:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA13568 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 13:44:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out1.ibm.net (out1.ibm.net [165.87.194.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA13553 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 13:44:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 166.72.151.83 (slip166-72-151-83.nd.us.ibm.net [166.72.151.83]) by out1.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id UAA38134; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 20:44:22 GMT Message-ID: <33EE282F.BA7F8731@ibm.net> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 15:44:31 -0500 From: Jay Erickson Reply-To: Jay.Erickson@ibm.net Organization: Life X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 (Macintosh; I; 68K) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG CC: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC Subject: Driver support X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: <199708070022.SAA26973@xmission.xmission.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed 6 Aug. 97 @ 7:22 pm Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC wrote: > Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD. > FreeBSD has more limited hardware support, but not much more limited. > Most devices for which a Linux device driver is available in SOURCE > CODE get adopted into FreeBSD fairly quickly; for somebody who knows > FreeBSD drivers, building a FreeBSD driver from a Linux driver is > a straightforward task. The same is true of drivers from NetBSD and > OpenBSD. > > > Wes Peters Softweyr LLC > http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com Well I could use a driver for the NCR 53c710 EISA SCSI controller. I hear it's not the greatest card, but it's the built in controller in COMPAQ's Proliant series. Unfortunately