Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 14:33:30 -0400 From: Jim C <jconner@enterit.com> To: Ben Madison <ben.madison@excite.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can I boot from CD-ROM on a Symbios SCSI card? Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20000411143224.01697f00@mail.enterit.com> In-Reply-To: <25551692.955470405443.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com>
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You should be able to. I've done it. => I have had problems in the past with symbios in the past though (as far as timeouts are concerned) Jim At 09.26 11.04.00 -0700, Ben Madison wrote: >Hi... > >I'm trying out a couple of Symbios-based SCSI cards, but I can't seem to >convince them to boot from CD-ROM. The cards are a Planex SC-EXLV2-3 (based >on the 53C895) and an ASUS PCI-SC896 (based, not surprisingly, on the >53C896). Does anyone know if these chipsets support booting from CD? > >I have Adaptec 2940x cards in some other machines, and they boot fine... I >sort of assumed that boot from CD was a standard feature, these days. Is >that not the case? Are there any cheaper (than Adaptec), supported (by >FreeBSD, naturally) Ultra2 cards out there you'd care to recommend, >especially any that you know will boot from CD? > >Thanks very much, >jbm >bmad AT pobox DOT com > > > > > >_______________________________________________________ >Get 100% FREE Internet Access powered by Excite >Visit http://freelane.excite.com/freeisp > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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