From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 16 06:54:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA29649 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 06:54:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA29623 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 06:54:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-146.laker.net [208.0.233.46]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id JAA24618; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 09:54:14 -0400 Message-Id: <199810161354.JAA24618@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , "Morgan Werner" Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 09:53:18 -0400 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_=_=_=IMA.BOUNDARY.HTML_4862544=_=_=_" Subject: Re: Ruinning FreeBSD on Parallel port driver Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --_=_=_=IMA.BOUNDARY.HTML_4862544=_=_=_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --Original Message Text--- From: Morgan Werner Date: 15 Oct 98 18:39:44 Pacific Standard Time I need some information about running freeBSD on a syquest parallel port drive. Please give me the instructions for this. You can't! You should buy an IDE or SCSI drive. I hope you asked before you bought. BTW, I used SyQuest SparQs for testing a product being ported from Clarion for DOS to Clarion for Windows, and I found that the SparQ EIDE drive was incompatible with some motherboards/BIOSes. Even after finding a motherboard/BIOS that would detect the SparQ natively (without SyQuest utility), I couldn't install OS/2 to it, and Windows NT didn't like that little setup either. They distinguish between non-removable DASD and removable DASD. DASD is IBMspeak for secondary storage, as in disk drive... MS-DOS, PC-DOS, didn't care, they just worked. Various versions of Winblows gave me fits if the drive went to "sleep". I suspect FreeBSD won't care, but I'm not promising, YMMV. The reason you can't use the parellel port model is that it doesn't get detected by the BIOS as an available "boot" drive. Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. --_=_=_=IMA.BOUNDARY.HTML_4862544=_=_=_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --Original Message Text---
From: Morgan Werner
Date: 15 Oct 98 18:39:44 Pacific Standard Time

I need some information about running freeBSD on a syquest parallel port drive.
Please give me the instructions for this.

You can't!

You should buy an IDE or SCSI drive. I hope you asked before you bought.

BTW, I used SyQuest SparQs for testing a product being ported from Clarion for DOS to Clarion for Windows, and I found that the SparQ EIDE drive was incompatible with some motherboards/BIOSes. Even after finding a motherboard/BIOS that would detect the SparQ natively (without SyQuest utility), I couldn't install OS/2 to it, and Windows NT didn't like that little setup either. They distinguish between non-removable DASD and removable DASD. DASD is IBMspeak for secondary storage, as in disk drive...

MS-DOS, PC-DOS, didn't care, they just worked. Various versions of Winblows gave me fits if the drive went to "sleep". I suspect FreeBSD won't care, but I'm not promising, YMMV.

The reason you can't use the parellel port model is that it doesn't get detected by the BIOS as an available "boot" drive.
Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. --_=_=_=IMA.BOUNDARY.HTML_4862544=_=_=_-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message