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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!news.dfn.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!zpr.uni-koeln.de!se From: se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD scsi, ethernet support Date: 2 Jan 1996 12:26:13 GMT Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany Lines: 37 Sender: se@Sysiphos (Stefan Esser) Message-ID: <4cb895$qcu@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de> References: <4c9qrh$d3j@nntp5.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sysiphos.mi.uni-koeln.de To: caj@tower.stc.housing.washington.edu (Craig A. Johnston) In article <4c9qrh$d3j@nntp5.u.washington.edu>, caj@tower.stc.housing.washington.edu (Craig A. Johnston) writes: |> I'm very strongly considering installing FreeBSD on my system in place of |> Linux if support for the ncr53c810 scsi chip and the lance pci chip |> (a la my cheapo boca) is not horribly broken.. does the driver for the |> 810 support disconnection? How would you rate FreeBSD support for these |> 2 vs Linux support for them? Both the NCR53c810 and the Lance are well supported in FreeBSD. The NCR driver supports disconnect, tagged command queues, FAST and WIDE transfers for 16b months. You'll probably enter the PCI Lance's port address manually at first boot, since there is no PCI autoconfigure support for the Lance in 2.1R, but it is very simple to enter the required values. (If you have used Linux with the Lance, then you ought to know the port and IRQ. Boot with "-c" entered at the "Boot: " prompt and enter "port lnc0 ####" and "irg lnc0 ##" and press "q" to finish the config mode. You'll have to repeat this once when booting from your hard disk the first time, the system will then patch those changes into the kernel image ...) |> The motherboard is an Asus sp3g, with the onboard 810.. any caveats with this |> motherboard? The ASUS PCI SP3 and later PCI SP3G were the development base for the PCI and NCR drivers. Just make sure you got Refresh set to NORMAL and ISA GAT disabled, and the board runs perfectly with all PCI performance options enabled (unlike some other i486 boards with broken chipsets). Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE>