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From: Al Johnson <Al.Johnson@AJC.State.Net>
To: "'hackers@freebsd.org'" <hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject: RE: What I consider and odd install
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 17:00:38 -0500
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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?