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From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles M. Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-1.1.5] Can I use 3c579?
Date: 31 Jul 1994 22:20:24 GMT
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In article <IKEYAN.94Jul30203328@kharula.airlab.cs.ritsumei.ac.jp>
ikeyan@airlab.cs.ritsumei.ac.jp (IKEMOTO Masahiro) writes:

   3c579 is EISA version of 3c509, isn't it?

Yes.

   Can 3c579 be used on FreeBSD-1.1.5? Or.. 3c509 is safer than 3c579?

I can't speak about FreeBSD, but the 579 is known to work on NetBSD.
However, it's only used in 16-bit mode at the moment.

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