Hi.
I'm the only MCA developer at this point so I guess you're talking to me.
(Unless someone else wants to step up and lend a hand. :)
On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Andreas Braukmann wrote:
> ... I'm in the process of putting my hands on an elderly
> IBM PS/2 Model 70 machine. The machine was duty as
> a very reliable and stable Netware server for many many years and
> was retired just a few weeks ago.
> It contains:
> the base-unit ;)
> i486
> 8 MByte RAM
> VGA graphics
I've got some problems to work out with the keyboard controller before the
graphics console is of much use.
> on-board SCSI hostadapter
This isn't supported.
> 2 * ca. 200 MByte SCSI harddisks
> additional Adaptec 1640 (formerly used for an external DDS-drive)
The Adaptec is supported. I have my m77 dual booting DOS and FreeBSD
right now; DOS is on the onboard SCSI and FreeBSD is on a disk hanging off
the Adaptec.
> SMC NIC
I've got a bus front end that currently has problems; this may be due to
the card being broken but is most likely due to something I've missed. I
need to pull the card and replace it, and test the front end with a
WD8013/A.
Is your card an 8003 or an 8013?
> If I'll eventually be able to 'aquire' the beast, I would like to
> loan (or even donate) the machine to the FreeBSD MCA effort.
That probably isn't needed; I have more than enough hardware at this
point. (I'll put up a picture of my MCA card collection at some point
just to prove it.)
What I do need are testers. Get the machine and compile an MCA kernel for
it; copy to the boot disks and try installing.
I should probably update LINT and GENERIC since the MCA support is
somewhat usable at this point.
Thanks for the offer of hardware though!
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