Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 17:00:38 -0500 From: Al Johnson <Al.Johnson@AJC.State.Net> To: "'hackers@freebsd.org'" <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: What I consider and odd install Message-ID: <01BC9140.9F77E320.Al.Johnson@AJC.State.Net>
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On Monday, July 14, 1997 1:33 AM, Tom Samplonius [SMTP:tom@sdf.com] wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Michael Smith wrote: > > > Tom Samplonius stands accused of saying: > > > > > > How about enabling BIOS support for more drives? Boot easy should see > > > the other drives, if the bios does, unless there is a design limitation > > > in > > > boot easy. > > > > Booteasy, especially 1.7, is very old. It dates from the days when > > most biossen only supported two drives (as previously mentioned). > > > > There is no correct way of discovering whether the BIOS supports more > > drives. > > > > You're invited to find the booteasy source code and improve on it. 8) > > Strange... booteasy was a rather new addition to FreeBSD (2.0, 2.05, or > something... well that is "somewhat new"). Adaptec 2940 has had the > "bios support for more than two drives" option for a long time. My Adaptec 2940 is not very old, acquired sometime around jan-feb 97 and I do not have a "bios support for more than two drives" option. Hmm, maybe in need of a EPROM update on the adaptec?
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