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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Hardware for FreeBSD 2.0
From: barnaby.ng@canrem.com (Barnaby Ng)
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Date: Thu,  8 Dec 94 13:38:00 -0500
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I'm thinking of getting the FreeBSD CD from Walnut Creek, so I called
them for the hardware supported for release 2.0. They told me to ask on
the net since he didn't has the list handy. So here it goes:-

Intel 486DX2-66
Gigabyte m/b with Award bios and SIS chipset
256K cache and 16MB main
Boca multi-io card (8 bit) with 16550
ATI Graphic Turbo with 2MB VRAM (Mach64 chipset, VL bus version)
Adaptec 2842VL SCSI host (AIC7770 chipset, VL bus version)

Other than the graphic card and SCSI host, the rest are quite standard,
but I want to be sure FreeBSD 2.0 will support the Mach64 and AIC7770,
and I like to hear from people who has actually used it, not just
according to the spec. Thanks in advance.