From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 10 12:58:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA24489 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 12:58:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA24479 for ; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 12:58:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.com [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #4) id 0yCW5X-0003Lc-00; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 12:57:27 -0800 Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 12:57:25 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: Ted Spradley cc: shimon@simon-shapiro.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DPT in GENERIC In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Ted Spradley wrote: > > The DPT driver allows FreeBSD users the use of a family of SCSI RAID > > controllers which are typically used in high end servers. For details > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > I'd bet that folks who've got these DPT things don't often run GENERIC kernels > on their high-end servers, and probably don't have too much trouble getting > FreeBSD installed on those high-end servers even though the GENERIC kernel > lacks a driver they need. The GENERIC kernel has to fit on the boot floppy Since DPT is a disk controller, it is pretty hard to make a system boot from a DPT connected disk unless dpt is in the GENERIC kernel to begin with. The dpt driver must be on the boot floppy to even install. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message