Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 12:45:06 +0800 (WST) From: Terry Dwyer <tdwyer@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-questions@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Embedded SCSI controller on HP netserver LC Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.90.960307123748.24742D@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199603070418.UAA24271@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Justin, thanks for the quick answer.
In terms of performance, do you have any idea how the aic7770 compares to
the aic7870. This box will probably run a (relatively) small newsfeed,
lightly used web & ftp server, X, (it's my workstation), and provide a real
ftp client for the DOS users whose ws-ftp and netscape ftp sessions fall
over under windoze all the time. 8-)
On Wed, 6 Mar 1996, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> >I have some reservations about this machine, the main one being to do with
> >the embedded SCSI controller, (an aic7770 I've been told), on the EISA
> >bus, this is even though the machine has a PCI bus.
>
> FreeBSD supports the aic7770, aic7870, and aic7880 chips. FreeBSD is known
> to work with other HP machines with these embeded controllers (aic7770s
> that is), but I don't know which server model it was.
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