On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 10:34:08AM -0800, Nicole H wrote:
> 
> --- Simas Mockevicius <symka@NetBSD.vejas.lt> wrote:
> > you may find all information about supported
> > hardware here by bus 
> > type: http://www.NetBSD.org/Hardware
> 
>  Your kidding right? I mean that says Hey we have this
> driver it does SCSI. We have this other driver it does
> SCSI CD's.. etc.. That's It!

No, it says much more than that... you should probably read all the
pages, so you know exactly what it does and does not say.

>  Might point was.. How Lame that is. FreeBSD has the
> Hardware Notes. The best in some ways was OpenBSD who
> also had links to the driver notes.  So if I have an
> Adaptec Blah Blah Blah and I want to know if it's
> supported by your OS, I have to write to someone or

If you have an Adaptec Blah Blah Blah, you go to
http://www.netbsd.org/Hardware/ and see if it's supported:

Supported PCI devices

    * SCSI host adapters (supported SCSI target devices)
          o Adaptec AHA-2940, AHA-2940U, AHA-2940AU, AHA-2944,
AHA-2944U, AHA-3940, AHA-3940U, AIC-7850, AIC-7855, AIC-7860,
AIC-7870, AIC-7880, AIC-789x, AVA-2904CD, and AVA-2906 (ahc(4))

 RAID controllers

    * Adaptec ASR-2410SA SATA RAID(aac(4))
    * Adaptec ASR-2810SA SATA RAID(aac(4))
    * Adaptec AAC-364, 2120S 2200S 5400S, Dell PERC 2/Si, 2/QC, 3/Di,
3/Si, 320/DC, HP NetRAID 4M (aac(4))
    * I2O RAID controllers: Adaptec, AMI, DPT, Intel, possibly more
(iop(4))

 Network interfaces

    * Adaptec AIC-6915 based cards, including the Adaptec ANA-62011
(single-port 10/100 64-bit), ANA-62022 (dual-port 10/100 64-bit),
ANA-62044 (quad-port 10/100 64-bit), ANA-62020 (single-port 100BASE-FX
64-bit), and ANA-69011 (single-port 10/100 32-bit) (sf(4))
    * Efficient Networks EN-155 and Adaptec AIC-590x ATM interfaces
(en(4))

etc...
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