From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 5 03:25:21 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D27D37B401 for ; Mon, 5 May 2003 03:25:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC61843FB1 for ; Mon, 5 May 2003 03:25:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (metatron.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.122]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h45AOwIW006432; Mon, 5 May 2003 19:55:01 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Terry Lambert , Oliver Lehmann Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 12:24:54 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <3EB3C118.6020203@octopus.com.au> <20030504124635.1a13ebbd.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <3EB563E4.4797B5CB@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <3EB563E4.4797B5CB@mindspring.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305051224.54989.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -1.2 () CARRIAGE_RETURNS,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_03_05,USER_AGENT X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppy Support X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 10:25:21 -0000 On Sun, 4 May 2003 21:03, Terry Lambert wrote: > Oliver Lehmann wrote: > > Terry Lambert wrote: > > > You need to buy Adaptec controllers; they can boot CDROMs. > > > > yeah.. the Controller exchange drive A with your cdrom. So it looks like > > your cd-rom is a floppy drive and you can boot from. But when you are in > > sysinstall. You can't choose install from cd-rom - because you don't have > > a cdrom... just a floppy... you see how fscking this is? > > Never had that problem with my AHA1742 and my Toshiba CDROM... > like I said before: you need to buy a different controller. The only way I could see it being a problem is if the kernel used the BIOS to talk to the disk, and it doesn't... And as you say, buy decent controller cards :) Also, Adaptec cards don't necessarily have a BIOS on them.. (Low end narrow SCSI ones in particular) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5