Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 12:09:56 -0600 (CST) From: Johnathan Raymond Sconiers II <john@Mcs.Net> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: do you support Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980226120741.27056A-100000@Mars.mcs.net> In-Reply-To: <199802261802.LAA27404@mt.sri.com>
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> > > > I was reading a few articles about scsi devices and i wanted to know > > > > does freebsd support Diamond Multimedia's Fireport 40 or the Fireport > > > > 40 dual? > > > > > > I have a Fireport 40 in my box that works well running 2.2.5-STABLE. > > > (I'm unsure if it's a dual, since I don't know what that is. Mine is a > > > Wide controller, if that helps.) > > > > The dual version is their scsi card that can do both ultra scsi and > > ultra wide scsi off of the same card. By the way did you right your own > > device driver? > > > Nope, Stefan Esser wrote all of the NCR drivers, and if I may say so > myself, I've only one *ONE* problem (and it turned out to be in another > part of the system that triggered the 'error') in the 2.5 years I've > owned them, while the Adaptec people have weekly problems. The > advantage of having access to the programming documentation has been > obvious to me. > > (This is not to say that the Adaptec stuff isn't good, but for me the > NCR has provided me *much* better bang for the buck with almost *zero* > problems.) > Nate Thanks for the info. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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