From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jul 10 18:36:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA09050 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 18:36:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA09045 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 18:36:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id LAA21967; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 11:06:16 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199707110136.LAA21967@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Q:PCI bridges-extenders supported In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19970710165015.011788b0@gw1> from Kedar at "Jul 10, 97 09:50:15 am" To: kedar@asacomputers.com (Kedar) Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 11:06:15 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Kedar stands accused of saying: > At 10:04 AM 7/10/97 +0930, you wrote: > >This is an I20 board. Do not expect it to work with FreeBSD just yet. > > Oh, really? hmm.. I sent one of these boards to a gentleman who > was interested in installing either Linux or FreeBSD on it. Did not hear > any complaits. I will check up with him. Apologies for any confusion > caused. Did not mean to mislead. Whoa, hold it right there. All the information I had to hand (very little) indicated that I2O boards were _not_ fundamentally `PC-architecture` compatible. If you have actually had one out and running, then I will happily swap my tune. > Maybe the Intel PR440FX is a good idea then? 4 PCI slots, with the > NIC and Adaptec SCSI controller on-board. That'd be a lovely board 8) > On the I2O issue, I could probably work something out with > Supermicro. Let me see if they are willing to share any information. Please; first step in the game is always having the information. > Kedar. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[