Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 15:35:38 +0100 (CET) From: "Erik H. Bakke" <erik@habatech.no> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, mjacob@feral.com, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Subject: Re: how solid is ata/wdc on alpha for -current? Message-ID: <XFMail.991113153538.erik@habatech.no> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911131145120.25540-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
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On 13-Nov-99 Doug Rabson wrote: >> It works? We can boot from an IDE disk now on the Alphas (and SRM's) that >> support it? > > Yes. There were some problems a few weeks ago with the timeouts being > wrong (not being expressed in terms of hz) but they are fixed now. I think > you can even install to an ATA disk although I haven't tested that. > Last time I checked, support for ATA/IDE was not in the GENERIC kernel that ships on the installation disks, so you would have to roll your own kernel and put in on the installdisk I believe. ===========================+================+=============================== Erik H. Bakke | | To be or not to be... Senior Consultant/Developer|erik@habatech.no| Is simply a question of Habatech AS | | binary logic ===========================+================+============================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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