Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 21:47:47 -0600 From: dkelly@iquest.com (David Kelly) To: dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu Cc: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware Compatibility.. Message-ID: <v02130502ad33431648f7@[204.177.193.231]>
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Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> said
>
>On Fri, 26 Jan 1996, Mark Jamison wrote:
>
>> Hi I was wondering if FreeBSD would run on my system..
>>
>> My system is configured as follows:
>>
>> 486DX-2 50MHz
>> 8 megs RAM
>> EIDE Controller Card
>> EIDE Mitsumi 4X CD-ROM
>> EIDE Conner 850MB Hard Drive
>> Soundblaster 16
>> Gravis Ultrasound ACE
>> Cirrus SVGA VESA Card (1meg VRAM)
>
>Only sticky point may be your CDROM, since ATAPI isn't well supported
>(slave on the primary disk only). Will eventually work though :)
I think you have it backwards. The ATAPI CDROM has to be the master. And
mine works on the 2nd IDE interface. Haven't stressed it to see if it
breaks.
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David Kelly N4HHE, n4hhe@amsat.org, dkelly@iquest.com
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