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From: Terry Kennedy <terry@spcuna.spc.edu>
Subject: Re: DEC DE500 support
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Drew C Morone <drew@j51.com> writes:
> How is the DEC DE500 supported in BSDI 2.1
> I'm looking for an entry in the kernel options, and I don't see 
> one for this card.

"de0 at pci?", I think. I've been running a bunch of these here for some
time and have been quite pleased. There's a performance hit from one of
the later 2.1 kernel patches which is also present in 3.0 (fixed in a 3.0
patch, I don't think there's a patch for 2.1).

	Terry Kennedy		  Operations Manager, Academic Computing
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