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From: Wilson MacGyver <macgyver@cylatech.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SMP Support?
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 02:59:11 -0400
Organization: CylaTech Inc.
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Chris wrote:
> 
> Does Free BSD support more than CPU?

well, the SMP stuff is really more of work-in-progress. I suppose
the answer would be, not in the general release. (2.1)

> 
> I am also using a caching Hardrive controller ( buslogic IDE ) it includes
> SCO driver.
> Will these work with Free BSD?

I don't know if the IDE conntroller itself will or not. But the SCO driver
won't.