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From: hakimian@haney.eecs.wsu.edu (Karl Hakimian - staff)
Subject: Re: Wannabe NetBSD user
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References: <CrI5By.7AJ@serval.net.wsu.edu> <1994Jun19.042728.16327@news.csuohio.edu>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1994 16:19:07 GMT
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In article <1994Jun19.042728.16327@news.csuohio.edu>,
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>
>	The IDE controller should work just fine but the SCSI controller
>is unsuported and likely to stay that way.  See if you can trade it for
>a Bustek one.  Also you might run into problems with the Saturn PCI
>chipset if your Pentium is a 60 or 66 Mhz one.  The Gateway 2k P5-90
>runs fine with FreeBSD and I assume will do the same with NetBSD.  It
>uses the fixed Neptune PCI chipset though.

Which Bustek? Is it PCI? What details can you give me about the Bustek
controller (scsi II?, fast?, wide?)

I am able to return the 2940 controller, so I will order another that should
work once I figure out which one that is.

Thanks.
--

Karl Hakimian
hakimian@eecs.wsu.edu