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#! rnews 2604 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.va.pubnix.com!not-for-mail From: lidl@va.pubnix.com (Kurt J. Lidl) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: BSDI vs FreeBSD Date: 7 Feb 1996 17:29:57 -0500 Organization: Pubnix Access Systems (Virginia) Lines: 58 Message-ID: <4fb955$1jp@catapult.va.pubnix.com> References: <AFj4X5nCg4@qsar.chem.msu.su> <4f6eir$odk@news.quanta.com> <4f86tp$5ki@atlas.uniserve.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: catapult.va.pubnix.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:13910 comp.unix.bsd.misc:515 Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com> wrote: >In article <4f6eir$odk@news.quanta.com>, rsww@quanta.coml says... > >>give some better performance. BSDI has more device drivers, but a lot > > If that were only so. You shoud say that BSDI supports different things. >BSDI does not have support for: > > * Adaptec 2742, 2842, 2940 This is incorrect. BSD/OS 2.1 has support for the following SCSI cards: NCR PCI/SCSI driver supports 53C825, as well as 53C810, 53C815 and 53C820. (NOTE: Wide drives currently run in narrow mode) Adaptec PCI, EISA cards: AHA-2940, 2940W PCI cards AHA-2740, 2740W, 2742, 2742W EISA cards AHA-2740AT, 2742AT twinchannel EISA cards (only one channel supported) AIC-7850, 7870-series chips on motherboard (NOTE: Wide drives currently run in narrow mode) > * No PCI ethernet cards at all: including DEC based cards which FreeBSD >supports This is incorrect. BSD/OS 2.1 has support for the following PCI ethernet devices: DEC 21040,21140 based cards: DEC DE435, DE434, DE450, DE500 SMC EtherPower and EtherPower 10/100 SMC EtherPower2 (dual 10 Mb/s) Other compatible cards 3Com 3C590, 3C595 > * No 100mbs ethernet support at all, including DEC and Intel cards which >FreeBSD supports Additionally, they support the 3COM 3C592 and 3C597 on the EISA bus, which are apparently a 10Mb/s and 100Mb/s cards, respectively. The above information is from the BSD/OS 2.1 release manual, page 3. > (Info taken from www.bsdi.com) Yeah, but next time, why don't you bother to point out that www.bsdi.com still says "V2.1 now shipping! (details coming soon)". You're comparing the feature list of their 2.0 system (released for just about a year) with the latest version of FreeBSD. How about a fair comparision next time? -Kurt -- /* Kurt J. Lidl (lidl@va.pubnix.com) UUCP: <Earth>!uunet!lidl */ /* Don't confuse my opinions with my employer's opinions! */