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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.

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