DEC 3000/700?

[Wilko Bulte]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 10:49:42AM +1000, Chris Knight wrote:

> >  > AFAIK TurboChannel support is not available in FreeBSD 5.0, but it
> >  > seems to be available in 4.8-RELEASE.

But it was not tested at all for 4.8 so...

> Didn't think to check the 4.8 Hardware docs - I'd assumed that 5.0
> would have been more complete.

5- dropped support for DEC3000 altogether. 

> > It was never very complete because there are no SCSI or display
> > drivers.

A long time ago SCSI worked on DEC3000 IIRC (pre-CAM era). If you want
to run this box go for NetBSD.

> > Unless you have the urge to port a SCSI driver from NetBSD, don't buy
> > this to run FreeBSD

You don't want to *buy* a DEC3000 anyway. By now they should be free
from your neighbourhood dumpster. They are neat pieces of engineering, built
like a tank etc. But just completely obsolete by now.

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