From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Dec 13 17: 9:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90BE015450 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:09:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA01699; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:10:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199912140110.RAA01699@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: eric@cirr.com (Eric Schnoebelen) Cc: shsrms@bellatlantic.net, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Potential Newbie Question In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 13 Dec 1999 11:42:11 CST." <199912131742.LAA16003@egsner.cirr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:10:31 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Mike Smith writes: > - > Looking in the various FreeBSD resources on the net, I do find > - > refs to jkh running SCSI drives on a PC164, so, does FreeBSD support > - > IDE drives on this beast? > - > - They should work, but you can't boot from them (only the PC164SX supports > - that AFAIK). > > Please don't tell my PC164 that it can't boot from an IDE > drive! :-) > > Seriously, with a late model SRM, the PC164 MB can boot > from an IDE drive without any problems. > > Note: I'm currently running NetBSD on that system, and > haven't tried to boot FreeBSD off of the IDE drive, so there may > be issues in FreeBSD with it. However, SRM understands and can > boot from the IDE drive. Cool. Now I have to go pull the box and see if it works here. Just to be sure, this is a PC164 you're talking about, not a PC164LX, PC164UX or PC164SX, right? Thanks for the heads-up! -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message