From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Dec 18 15:55:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA22264 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 15:55:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA22256 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 15:55:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA07555; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 18:55:19 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id SAA56399; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 18:55:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 18:55:08 -0500 (EST) To: Mike Smith Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot kern.flp wedges -- now what? In-Reply-To: <199812182202.OAA02955@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <13946.35442.260953.650982@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <199812182202.OAA02955@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <13946.60123.497756.812673@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike Smith writes: > > > > > > Also, FreeBSD does not yet support IDE devices > > > > > > You're talking about FreeBSD-alpha, right? FreeBSD-intel does IDE just > > > fine. What's the story with IDE on alpha? > > > > Last I checked, isa devices requiring DMA didn't work yet, and the > > new, pci-only driver wasn't yet done. (at least I though somebody was > > working on one...) I'd be happy to be wrong about that ;-) > > This took a hit when Soren's system and his backup tapes were stolen. > I'm not sure how much momentum we've lost, but I'd say quite a lot. That stinks.. I'm really sorry to hear about it. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message