Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 15:02:40 -0400 (EDT) From: wietse@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) To: pir@pir.net (Peter Radcliffe) Cc: wietse@porcupine.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need FreeBSD 4.0 removable SCSI support Message-ID: <20000518190240.88D9C4563D@spike.porcupine.org> In-Reply-To: <20000518143959.D10677@pir.net> from Peter Radcliffe at "May 18, 0 02:39:59 pm"
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Peter Radcliffe: > Wietse Venema <wietse@porcupine.org> probably said: > > With my Thinkpad 600 machine, the SlimSCSI 1460B+Jaz 2GB works with > > FreeBSD 2.2.8 and with SUSE Linux 6.4. So it would appear that the > > hardware is not too broken. > > The only thing that occurs to me is 4.0 uses a configuration that > conflicts with something else in the machine, which seems odd given > that another Thinkpad 600 owner has said it is ok. > > Did they send you their configuration details ? Who was that TP600 owner? We might be able to make a very close comparison between our systems. I have not seen that email as I am not on the freebsd list (I receive too much mail). > > What is 3.4-PAO? Is it a patch to the 3.4-RELEASE that I already > > have on CD, or does this involve yet another download and install? > > http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/PAO/ > > New kernel ans a few userland utilities for 3.4. If you can install > 3.4 then you can just do a binary install of PAO over the top. That sounds interesting. There still is a little free space on the spare disk that I use for testing. Of course that web server is dead right now. > > What hardware were you using? Perhaps the Thinkpad 600 is a bit > > finnicky about things. > > The laptop is a Sony 505TR, the disk a random Seagate 1Gb disk I > had kicking around in an external case. > > Do you have any other scsi devices to test with ? All I want is to use this sucker with the JAZ drive. Carrying a couple external disk drives in my suitcase is not practical. Wietse To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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