Compaq and dockstation

Bruce M Simpson bms at spc.org
Tue Sep 14 02:45:18 PDT 2004


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On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 06:28:11PM +0400, Alex Povolotsky wrote:
> I was offered to buy used Compaq Armada with dockstation containint IDE controller and 3 PCI slots. Sounds great, but does anyone have any experience with such devices? Will it work with FreeBSD?

Generally this kind of peripheral uses a hardware attachment which is
more or less invisible to the OS. Devices such as Magma PCI enclosures
are different and are essentially Cardbus-to-PCI bridges.

BMS


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