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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!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: PC Unix hardware guide? Date: 6 Jan 1995 05:19:37 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3eijt9$srf@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <paigenD1yMBK.B96@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <paigenD1yMBK.B96@netcom.com>, David Paigen <paigen@netcom.com> wrote: >Two other HW questions. I looked in the FAQ, but the answers >were unclear to me. > >1) Does FreeBSD support Trident 8900 svga cards? Yes. Well, to be more correct, XFree86 3.1 that's bundled with FreeBSD 2.0 does. >2) FreeBSD supports SCSI based CD-ROM. Fine. Any SCSI CDROM? AFAIK, any. >Or only some? What is this business with the Mitsumi (sp?)? Is Mitsumi is a different animal. Not SCSI. Proprietary interface. >that special in some way? Also, does the speed of the drive >matter? 2X? 3X, 4X? Nope. Assuming that all speeds work from a given manufacturer, that is. Jordan