From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 1 08:15:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA03784 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 08:15:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA03773 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 08:15:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA00950; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 09:14:51 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA09745; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 09:14:50 -0600 Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 09:14:50 -0600 Message-Id: <199810011514.JAA09745@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Terry Lambert Cc: karl@Denninger.Net (Karl Denninger), tom@uniserve.com, dnelson@emsphone.com, bright@hotjobs.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Long IDE probes? In-Reply-To: <199810010219.TAA20771@usr01.primenet.com> References: <19980930125458.A4304@Denninger.Net> <199810010219.TAA20771@usr01.primenet.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Are the delay lengths reasonable? I don't know. Aren't there specs on > > this stuff from the IDE and SCSI camps? > > A better question: is there *ANYONE* out there that has a bootable > IDE or SCSI device that FreeBSD detects, but which the BIOS POST > display does not show as being present in the machine? My P-166 in front of me has an IDE disk in it that is *NOT* seen by the BIOS, but has a secondary FreeBSD partition on it. I used to boot from it when I wanted a different version of FreeBSD on it (-stable, rather than -current). By disabling the IDE disk in the BIOS, it booted from the SCSI disk, but I could still mount/read infromation from the IDE disk which is how I upgraded the OS. :) (Note, I wasn't able to boot from the IDE disk unless I enabled it in the BISO, but the argument wasn't about booting, but about knowing the existance of the disk, which FreeBSD (correctly) found even though the BIOS code did not.) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message