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I received the following suggestion:

> It probably would be a good idea to post this article also in
> gnu.discussion because the FSF UNIX-Kernel (called hurd) will
> also run on original Mach3.0 as the implementator of hurd posted there
  gnu.misc.discuss is as close as I could get to gnu.discussion.
  I am trying to get on the hurd list. If someone could tell me how,
that would be great.
  I have heard talk of people running Mach 3.0. I thought it was not
yet useable: if there is a bsd interface for it at or near useability,
I'd like to know about it.

 I posted this in machi386 and got little response. I notice that
hardware-related questions are being asked in this group, suspect
that it has a wider readership that machi386, and know that there is
considerable [34]86 interest, so I am reposting this here. There are
a number of people around other than myself trying to find out what
sort of hardware, other than the incomplete and rather small list
specified by CMU, runs Mach. If I ever get enough information, I
still intend to provide a summary. Interested parties should mail
to machi386-request@cs.cmu.edu so they can monitor machi386 which
is interesting but not terribly active.

  I am trying to find a good EISA 486 board for Mach. So far, the only
one I have heard positive comments about is the Olivetti CP486/EISA.
I have talked to Olivetti people and discovered that their Mach group
has dissolved, and it seems they do not have a major US U**X presence,
so I became somewhat discouraged about that.
 I have also heard that the Mylex 486/33 EISA board has a bios written
for Unix systems.  Comments about any EISA 486 boards would be greatly
appreciated.
  If I am unable to discover a good EISA board that Mach likes, I will
have to spec ISA. Comments about good or bad 486 ISA boards are requested.
  Also, a VAR I am working with has it on good authority that Western
Digital is no longer making separate disk controller boards, but is instead
making IDE disks. In light of this, comments on other more available
controller boards such as the Adaptec 1542 SCSI board, the Adaptec <part #
not known> ESDI controller, or any other ESDI or SCSI controller would
be appreciated.
  Also, I am considering choosing SCSI over ESDI. We have source for a
SCSI driver for mach: comments on SCSI vs. ESDI, and information on the
availability of kernel binaries with the SCSI driver, would be appreciated.
  We are considering perhaps a Maxtor or Micropolis 600-oddMB drive.
Comments on favorite/hated drives in this capacity would be appreciated.
  Also, a VAR has recommended using the Chinon re-writeable (WMRM) CD-Rom
drive as a backup device. Has anyone worked with this at all? Is there a
driver floating around?
  Any other comments related to hardware selection would be read with
great interest.
  There are at least a few other people in this group who are also trying
to come up with a good platform for Mach, so comments on these questions
may be of fairly general interest. I will in any case summarize responses
if I get enough information.
Many Thanks,

--jbray (Jim Bray, bray@wcuvax1.wcu.edu)