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From: obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu (David E. O'Brien)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Don't shout - (Future Domain 1610)
Date: 22 Jul 1996 00:51:57 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
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Paul Walsh (paul@nation-net.com) wrote:
: J Wunsch wrote:
: > Paul Walsh <paul@nation-net.com> wrote:
: > > I'm just about to bin it , honestly. But before I do did anyone,
: > > anywhere ever get the FD 1610 to work with freeBSD 2.1?
: > 
: How much work would this be given that the seagate driver works with tmc 
: 850/950 the 8-bit version? And where would I get the specs from?

There is a Linux driver for this card.  You can get it from the kernal
source distribution (don't ask the URL, I don't remember).  It is pretty
well documented, and would probably give you enought information to write a
FreeBSD driver.

-- David    (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)