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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!news.mathworks.com!hookup!swrinde!emory!cs.utk.edu!not-for-mail From: cowell@cs.utk.edu (Andrew Cowell) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Hardware check on new Pentium system Date: 1 Feb 1995 01:49:32 -0500 Organization: CS Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Lines: 30 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3gnatsINNqg4@tyco.cs.utk.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: tyco.cs.utk.edu I've read the FAQ and gone through the mail archives, and just wanted to clarify a few points (and get some info/opinions) before I go ahead and buy a Pentium system: o Only FreeBSD has support for the PCI AHA-2940, and then only in a working code snapshot. If I take the boot image from freebsd.cdrom.com:/.11/FreeBSD/2.0-950112-SNAP/294x_boot_144.flp.gz, I should have no problems. When NetBSD has support for this card (if it doesn't already), will I still be able to do DMA above 16 Megs with the PCI bus (I assume that this is just standard on a PCI bus?) What protocols can you buy 2940's for (SCSI, SCSI-2, etc...)? What is the advantage/disadvantage of the newer SCSI protocols over the old? Will old devices work with the newer SCSI's? Will all of these boards work under FreeBSD? o The ATI Mach64 Graphics Pro Turbo w/4M is supported by FreeBSD/NetBSD/XFree86 at 1280x1024 w/ 16.7 million colors on the PCI bus, correct? Thanks a lot! I'm really looking forward to having this BSD machine at home, I just want to make sure it's going to work. -- Andrew E. B. Cowell <cowell@cs.utk.edu> | You picked up your flag and kissed it Sys Admin, Computer Science Department | with your black volcanic lipstick. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville | Now I'm simply your statistic... WWW: http://www.cs.utk.edu/~cowell/ | Count me out! (Legendary Pink Dots)