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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!pipex!sunic!trane.uninett.no!nac.no!nntp-oslo.uninett.no!hpx14.aid.no!jawil From: jawil@hpx14.aid.no (Jan Roger Wilkens) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: NetBSD with PS/2 and MCA? Date: 23 Aug 1994 12:54:18 GMT Organization: AID Lines: 17 Distribution: world Message-ID: <33crhr$eo@ratatosk.uninett.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: hpx14.aid.no I heard that NetBSD has just gotten support for IBM PS/2 machines using MCA. We've got a PS/2 tower here which uses an MCA-HD controller (~80MB) together with an Adaptec SCSI-controller which has a ~120MB HD connected. Will NetBSD work on this system? Where can I find a snapshot that is new enough to have the MCA-support built in? Where do I find the latest install-docs to help me out? (I've installed NetBSD on the Amiga, but I guess the procedure is different on PC machines.) Another question: If I buy a PC where both gfx-gard and IDE-controller are VLB, will this halt performance? Will for example X hang while swapping?] Is a VLB screen-card and an ISA controller a better choice maybe? (Or should I go directly for PCI?) -- Jan Roger Wilkens - Agder College of Engineering - Computer Engineering jawil@aid.no http://www.aid.no/~jawil/homepage.html