From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Nov 30 21:33:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from sj-msg-core-4.cisco.com (sj-msg-core-4.cisco.com [171.71.163.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EF4F37B400; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 21:33:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com (bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com [171.70.84.42]) by sj-msg-core-4.cisco.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA13206; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 21:33:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eB15XpK38468; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 21:33:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200012010533.eB15XpK38468@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Mike Smith Cc: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can this really be true? FreeBSD not working on IBM T20's In-Reply-To: <200011302348.eAUNm1F00969@mass.osd.bsdi.com> References: <200011302348.eAUNm1F00969@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Comments: In-reply-to Mike Smith message dated "Thu, 30 Nov 2000 15:48:01 -0800." From: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG (Bruce A. Mah) Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-1981779724P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 21:33:50 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --==_Exmh_-1981779724P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Mike Smith wrote: > I can confirm that the T20, more specifically Type 2627-41U aka 'Toronto' > running BIOS 1.00 IYET33WW is not susceptible to this problem. I wasn't > able to try any later BIOS code on this machine (but may be able to given > further time). From other reports, I am fairly confident that this BIOS > family (IYET) is not affected. > > I can also confirm that the X20, Type 2662-21U aka 'Sydney' running BIOS > 1.05 IZET37WW is also not affected. From other reports in the field, I > am fairly confident that this BIOS family (IZET) is not affected. Mike, thanks very much for this extremely detailed information. I have a T20, type 2647-86U, with BIOS 1.03 (IYET37WW) at my disposal. I'm hoping to try a FreeBSD install on it soon, but I need to do it carefully so as to preserve the Win2K install on the disk. I'll report results once I have them (hopefully soon enough to still be timely). Bruce. --==_Exmh_-1981779724P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 iD8DBQE6Jzg+2MoxcVugUsMRAoA0AKCscQ7xNpjUNF77/9RZRVW2BKdwuACgsW1R 1FTMJ5ZJW2q4GATNZo+eH44= =CS8E -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-1981779724P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message