From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 11 22:41: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C914F37B953; Thu, 11 May 2000 22:40:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA22977; Fri, 12 May 2000 01:40:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 01:40:25 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Dutch Collins Cc: Gheorghe Ardelean , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.0 and IBM PS/2 Model 65SX In-Reply-To: <391B1E9D.27ED8088@charm.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 11 May 2000, Dutch Collins wrote: > Gheorghe Ardelean wrote: > > can I install FreeBSD 4.0R on a IBM PS/2 Model 65SX with 8MB Ram > > and 2 SCSI HDD of 120MB each? > > > > The netowrk card is an WD8003 and the SCSI Controller is Based on Adaptec > > AIC-6250EL. > > NetBSD has a patch for their software that "should" work for MCA. > > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/05/06/1836253 > http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2000/05/02/0021.html > http://www.ics.muni.cz/~dolecek/NetBSD/MCA/ FreeBSD has MCA support. The 'ed' driver doesn't currently support the WD8003/A but the AHA-1640 is supported. GENERIC doesn't have MCA support built in so you'll need to build a custom kernel and copy it to the boot floppy. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message