From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 26 10:10:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA26263 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 10:10:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Kitten.mcs.com (Kitten.mcs.com [192.160.127.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA26178 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 10:09:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john@Mars.mcs.net) Received: from Mars.mcs.net (john@Mars.mcs.net [192.160.127.85]) by Kitten.mcs.com (8.8.7/8.8.2) with ESMTP id MAA20566; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 12:09:57 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (john@localhost) by Mars.mcs.net (8.8.7/8.8.2) with SMTP id MAA27094; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 12:09:57 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 12:09:56 -0600 (CST) From: Johnathan Raymond Sconiers II To: Nate Williams cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: do you support In-Reply-To: <199802261802.LAA27404@mt.sri.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > 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