From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Nov 13 3:45: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18B6514C82 for ; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 03:44:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA99980; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 11:46:42 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 11:46:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Peter Wemm Cc: mjacob@feral.com, alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how solid is ata/wdc on alpha for -current? In-Reply-To: <19991113095014.EE09C1C6D@overcee.netplex.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > Never mind. I risked all and have lived so far... > > 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. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message