From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 5 17:33:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA23647 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 17:33:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from paprika.michvhf.com (paprika.michvhf.com [209.57.60.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA23638 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 17:33:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vev@paprika.michvhf.com) Received: (qmail 13741 invoked by uid 1000); 6 Aug 1998 00:33:41 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199808052151.PAA01734@obie.softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 20:33:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Vince Vielhaber To: Wes Peters Subject: Re: Install *actually* friendly Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 05-Aug-98 Wes Peters wrote: >> On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Vince Vielhaber wrote: >> > PC's are being shipped that way! The particular machine that happened >> > to >> > me on was an Intel, not a machine built by Joe Blow's 'Puter Parts. I'd > > What EVER made you think a computer made by Intel is better than one > made by "Joe Blow's Computer Parts"? Temporary insanity, but one would still expect a system from a manufacturer to be done correctly whoever they are. >> > already installed FreeBSD on a number of systems and it's my preferred >> > Unix so I was a bit more persistant than the typical user. Right now >> > that >> > machine has the hard disk and CD on wdc0 and FreeBSD *still* doesn't >> > even >> > see wdc1 (even tho there's nothing on it). The controllers are built >> > onto >> > the motherboard. > > You don't understand: if you don't have a "master" device plugged into > that "IDE2" connector on your motherboard, YOU DON"T HAVE A SECOND IDE > CONTROLLER! The "controller" on IDE is ON THE DRIVE, that's what > "Integrated Drive Electronics" means. If the BIOS, dos, windoze, linux, OS/2, etc. can detect and use a device on the slave with no "master" your statement is slightly amiss. AND QUIT SHOUTING! Vince. -- ========================================================================== Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: vev@michvhf.com flame-mail: /dev/null # include TEAM-OS2 Online Searchable Campground Listings http://www.camping-usa.com "There is no outfit less entitled to lecture me about bloat than the federal government" -- Tony Snow ========================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message