From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 24 0: 4:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 934FE14F9C for ; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 00:04:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id QAA10985; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 16:04:39 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <37EAED6F.2460BC8C@newsguy.com> Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 12:18:07 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Lemon Cc: freebsd@osterskov.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with Compaq SMART-2SL array controller References: <199909231707.MAA21789@free.pcs> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > For now, you could remove the IDE devices from the config file, > until this gets fixed. Ideally, the boot blocks/loader should be > taught to boot from something other than wd() or da(). Alas, the loader uses BIOS to read the disk. Anything the BIOS can read, so can the loader. The way it _passes_ the information, though, is limited by the kernel. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Thus, over the years my wife and I have physically diverged. While I have zoomed toward a crusty middle-age, she has instead clung doggedly to the sweet bloom of youth. Naturally I think this unfair. Yet, if it was the other way around, I confess I wouldn't be happy either." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message