On Sun, 1 Sep 1996 20:03:27 -0400 (EDT) 
 Jonathan Sturges <jonathan@cc.odu.edu> wrote:

 > I'm interested in buying a UDB, since they can be had cheaply now.  But I 
 > was concerned about NetBSD's stability on this box.  I heard that as 
 > recently as a few snapshots ago that it wasn't terribly stable.  I'm 
 > hoping that's changed, cuz I'd hate to be forced to run Linux!  ;-)

NetBSD runs great on several multias here at work, and on a multia owned 
by a friend of mine ... (it ran great on mine, too, until mine died of 
some bizarre hardware failire :-/)

 > Also, how about support for the UDB's hardware.  Is it all there?  Even 
 > the on-board sound?  How about the PC Card slots?  And what kinds, if 
 > any, of PCI cards might be supported under NetBSD?

The on-board sound isn't there, yet ... requires some changes to the ISA 
DMA code.  The PCMCIA stuff isn't there, yet, either... NetBSD needs 
generic PCMCIA support, and the currently-available framework needs ... a 
lot of work before it can go into the tree...

Almost any PCI card we have a driver for should work ... err, that is, a 
DEC Tulip-based ethernet card, a DEC PDQ FDDI card (DEFPA), the PCnet-PCI 
ethernet card will probably work, 3Com 5x59{0,5} might work (I'm going to 
try and test that this week, actually), and NCR 53c8xx SCSI cards, etc.

The Adaptec aic7xxx-based cards don't work on the alpha yet, and the 
buslogic pci cards don't, either...

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