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From: Michael VanLoon <MichaelV@EDIFECS.COM>
To: "'Marc Rassbach'" <marc@milestonerdl.com>
Cc: "'uid0@catastrophe.net'" <uid0@catastrophe.net>,
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Subject: RE: freebsd w/ scsi and ide (fwd)
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 21:00:12 -0700
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That's um... sad... yet not entirely unexpected...

> From: Marc Rassbach [mailto:marc@milestonerdl.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 9:02 PM
> 
> Yet don't laugh.....
> RedHat 7.0 will choke with a SCSI boot and an IDE as a secondary.
> So it is not as foolish a question as it seems.
> 
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Michael VanLoon wrote:
> > Sorry but this made me laugh... like this is the first time 
> somebody has
> > ever tried this.
> > 
> > Every *BSD system that has a SCSI controller and an IDE 
> CD-ROM drive falls
> > under this category.
> > 
> > Yes, I've been doing it with NetBSD and FreeBSD since 1993.
> > 
> > > From: uid0@catastrophe.net [mailto:uid0@catastrophe.net]
> > > Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 6:34 PM
> > > 
> > > Hello there -
> > > 
> > > A friend of mine was wondering the following..
> > > 
> > > "
> > > Have you ever run or seen run freebsd using both a SCSI and IDE
> > > hard-drive?
> > > 
> > > below is the system configuration (this is apparently a 
> > > system that ken
> > > might have mucked up)
> > > 
> > > Adapter: adaptec ultra 160
> > > Drive(s): seagate cheetah 18Gb
> > > 
> > > also using IDE CDROM 48x drive
> > > and
> > > ultra dma 20gb drive
> > > "
> > > 
> > > I suggested that he just rebuild a kernel with both SCSI and IDE
> > > support. Is there anything else he'll need to know?

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