From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Dec 5 13:49:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA15119 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 13:49:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA15114 for ; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 13:49:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA02858; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 16:49:46 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA24077; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 16:49:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 16:49:46 -0500 (EST) To: Wilko Bulte Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-alpha mailing list) Subject: Re: crash boom bang, or mount FreeBSD/x86 flop on Alpha In-Reply-To: <199812052110.WAA23781@yedi.iaf.nl> References: <199812052110.WAA23781@yedi.iaf.nl> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <13929.43535.882458.355271@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Wilko Bulte writes: > When taking a closer look at dmesg I saw that there was not even a floppy > device configured (GENERIC does not have it. Is the axp not yet capable > of doing floppy interfaces?) Last I checked, there were still some issues to be sorted out before ISA devices requiring DMA would work on FreeBSD/alpha Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message