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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ou.edu!leto.ou.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!news.mathworks.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: 6 Feb 1997 16:27:13 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <5dd0p1$72n@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <Pine.SOL.3.91.970201040446.16129A-100000@ux8.cso.uiuc.edu> <32F378FC.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <slrn5ekm26.5ml.ralsina@ultra7.unl.edu.ar> <32F68743.2781E494@freebsd.org> <slrn5feb63.93l.ralsina@ultra7.unl.edu.ar> <32F73973.167EB0E7@freebsd.org> <slrn5fejrn.353.bet@onyx.interactive.net> <5d7spf$8n6@web.nmti.com> <5d8ikn$801$1@venus.mcs.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:156322 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2269 les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell) wrote: > I put Linux on a box last April or so because I couldn't get the > FreeBSD available then to run the on-board adaptec controller. Incidentally on an HP Netserver? If so, why didn't you ask in the official FreeBSD support forums? Be assured, we would have found a solution for this. (The problem is known, and there's even an official workaround in place now, and no, it doesn't require a different boot floppy, it's still only one.) The only other Adaptecs that aren't supported at all by now are the not-really-Adaptec (former Future Domain) controllers. They are PIO only, so there has been much less interest for most people writing a driver than for the AIC7[78]xx chip family. (There seems to be somebody taking this part now.) Sure, Linux' hardware support is wider, that's one of the points pro Linux, and we (the FreeBSD team) never said otherwise. But if you don't get back on us, how should we notice of your problem at all? Grumbling into your beard wouldn't help much... -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j