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Istvan Gyenes writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > AFAIK TurboChannel support is not available in FreeBSD 5.0, but it seems
 > to be available in 4.8-RELEASE.
 > ( http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.8R/hardware-alpha.html#AEN380 )
 > 
 > Hope this helps,

It was never very complete because there are no SCSI or display
drivers. 

Unless you have the urge to port a SCSI driver from NetBSD, don't buy
this to run FreeBSD

Drew