Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:11:35 -0800 (PST) From: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net> To: Remy NONNENMACHER <remy@synx.com> Cc: Stephen Ritter <t_sritte@qualcomm.com>, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ASUS P2L97DS Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980225200848.25932A-100000@mail.cdsnet.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.91.980225115341.2188F-100000@rs1>
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On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Remy NONNENMACHER wrote: > Yes. There is only one problem: multiples 2940 cards are > initialized/probed by the bios in different order than the one during the > FreeBSD boot probing. This gave me good time when the 'bios boot' disk > were the last one seen by the kernel !!... By inverting cards, cables > and so on, i got the 'bios boot' disk as sd0. (I run 2x2940 each for 4x9Gb > disks and use the internal 7880 for DLT, CD-RW and tapes All works great). I complained about this a long time ago, and I was informed it was a "feechur", and that the DOS way was completely wrong, and the FreeBSD solution was superior. Nevermind the arguments about quantity vs quality. If you have the patience, you can install on a single drive in the system with everything else unplugged, which gets you sd0, then you can hardwire the devices in the kernel to match your new configuration once everything is plugged in. I still think the FreeBSD way is broke. NT can figure it out, Windows can figure it out, Solaris gets it the same way, but then there's FreeBSD out on the fringe. Right, but difficult to use. Once you get things hardwired, it all works swimmingly. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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