From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 14 21:13:54 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA17699 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 21:13:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from atlrel2.hp.com (atlrel2.hp.com [156.153.255.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA17691 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 21:13:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from piet@cup.hp.com) Received: from hpfsvr02.cup.hp.com (root@hpfsvr02.cup.hp.com [15.28.74.198]) by atlrel2.hp.com (8.8.6/8.8.5tis) with ESMTP id AAA28939; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 00:12:25 -0500 (EST) Received: from piet1.sparc.engr.sgi.com (piet1.cup.hp.com [15.28.75.241]) by hpfsvr02.cup.hp.com with SMTP (8.8.6/8.7.3 TIS Messaging 5.0) id VAA25594; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 21:12:38 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 21:12:38 -0800 (PST) From: Piet Delaney Message-Id: <199901150512.VAA25594@hpfsvr02.cup.hp.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, piet@cup.hp.com, eischen@vigrid.com Subject: Re: Looking for Suggestion on Booting FreeBSD 3.0 [snip] from 7895 [snip] Cc: piet@hpfsvr02.cup.hp.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Please don't send this to so many people. I've snipped > 26 or so Email address off the reply. Direct this to > freebsd-questions only. ok, > > If you had looked at the FreeBSD 3.0 release notes from > the web site, you would have seen: > > 2.1. Disk Controllers > --------------------- > WD1003 (any generic MFM/RLL) > WD1007 (any generic IDE/ESDI) > IDE > ATA > > Adaptec 1535 ISA SCSI controllers > Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controllers > Adaptec 174x series EISA SCSI controller in standard and enhanced mode. > Adaptec 274X/284X/2920/2940/2950/3940/3950 (Narrow/Wide/Twin) series > EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI controllers. > Adaptec AIC7850, AIC7880, AIC789x, on-board SCSI controllers. I did't know about the 3.0 notes. I just printed them. > > Yes, AIC789x is supported where x=5. I suppose my search for 7895 failed and/or I didn't realize the x bit. Think I can boot off the CDROM? Anychange that a Sun scsi CDROM would work. The sector size isn' the same as PC use. This is the first PC I've but together and my first attempt at using FreeBSD. I've orderd a Matrox to use with some on my $30 21 inch sun monitors; likely have to boot off of a PC monitor. Need to get the rest now; CPU's, memory, etc. If you have any suggestions it might save me a few bucks and time. -piet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message