From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 25 20:40:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA08304 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:40:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA08178 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:40:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA28670; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:39:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:39:51 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: kris@airnet.net cc: John Kenagy , questions freebsd Subject: Re: UPSd and PS2 compatibility In-Reply-To: <34F49B4E.909E3E04@ninbox.dyn.ml.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Kris Kirby wrote: > Doug White wrote: > > FreeBSD won't boot and the slots on the MB look funny. > > The MCA slots look like PCI slots. The connectors are *physically* > identical. If you plug a PCI card in a MCA machine and flip the switch, > all bets are off. They are *not* identical in signalling. Generally, a > PS/2 with ISA (only) and a 386 ought to be able to run FreeBSD. Email me > the model # and I will tell you if it is ISA or naught. (pun intended) Well, it would be really odd for an old 486 to have PCI. :-) Do any IBMs outside of the Aptiva series even _have_ PCI slots? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message