> > but it's not installed in the FreeBSD box yet. I don't know if FreeBSD
> > will even read an Amiga RDB. It's not going in there anyway. I have
> > other plans.
> 
> Adaptec is known for good cards

No they aren't. Adaptec are known for making some of the worst SCSI
cards of all time. As far as I know there is no such thing as a good
SCSI card unless it's one of those rather expensive Compaq 5304 RAID
controllers :)

> they've been making scsi cards for a long time.

And making mistakes for longer..

> I've not had an oppertunity to play with BSD.  How much of a
> difference lies between unix/linux and BSD?

Linux sucks. BSD doesn't.
 
> Well, I hope that some good luck befalls your Amiga stuff :-)

It won't. I'm throwing it out once I get some new kit, the Power
Tower is useless (LED board destroyed, AT PSU has no fan) the BlizzPPC
seems to be fucked (*bad* SCSI errors, random crashes.. it was
overclocked in a previous life and that guy obviously broke it)

Maybe I'll sell my BVision on Amibench if anyone wants it. 

HyperCOM3 (parallel port not suitable for ECP modes, need a mod)

I have an AGA scandoubler that works, I guess. And a PCMCIA fix. And
a CNet PCMCIA network card, although I'm going about finding a laptop
so it'll probably go in that as a stopgap to getting a decent net
card for it.

Salvage, salvage.. ;)

> speak for everyone, but I'de love to see a new beta.  Then again, I
> know it's tough--since, it's become a work of passion, as the money
> has all dried up :-(

I never saw any (registration) money anyway. I just can't compile V
on my FreeBSD box like I can the rest of my projects: the 68k version
needs SAS/C and the PPC version relies on too many Amiga things in
the build process. I've been through and half-ported some of the stuff
for AmIRC but.. well, it's a slow process when you have other things
to do.

> > :)
> 
> Gee, I can't imagine *why* they wouldn't share :-P

I'm sure if you give Jobs something, pun intended, they'll share
eventually ;)

-- 
Matt Sealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 

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