From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 24 19:29:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA15287 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 19:29:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from arnie.systems.sa.gov.au (arnie.systems.sa.gov.au [143.216.242.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA15260 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 19:28:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from state.systems.sa.gov.au by arnie.systems.sa.gov.au (PMDF V4.3-7 #13538) id <01I2RAPPNLPC002426@arnie.systems.sa.gov.au>; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 13:53:47 +1030 Received: from dogbert.systems.sa.gov.au (dogbert.systems.sa.gov.au) by state.systems.sa.gov.au (PMDF V5.0-4 #13538) id <01I2RA2TGB80001FVU@state.systems.sa.gov.au>; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 13:34:55 +1030 Received: from jolt.systems.sa.gov.au (jolt.systems.sa.gov.au [143.216.237.8]) by dogbert.systems.sa.gov.au (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA17626; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 13:38:31 +1030 Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 10:06:36 +0930 From: Garth Kidd Subject: Re: Booting off SCSI disks when two IDE disks also installed. (fwd) In-reply-to: Michael Smith <"Re: Booting off SCSI disks when two IDE disks also installed. (fwd)"@state.systems.sa.gov.au> (Mar 25, 8:47) To: Michael Smith Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <960325133717.ZM2871@jolt.systems.sa.gov.au> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Z-Mail 4.0 (4.0.0 Aug 21 1995) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <199603242217.IAA25534@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > ... and Adaptec SCSI controllers aren't "register level compatible" with > IDE controllers. Or anything else for that matter. The only SCSI > controllers I know of that were "register level compatible" were the old > Longshine LC400(?) cards that concatenated every SCSI disk you connected > to them into a huge RAID -1 IDE disk. If anyone wants one of these, by the way, I have one I'd be happy to sell :) -- garth@dogbert.systems.sa.gov.au | Garth Kidd +61-8-207-7740 (voice) | Professional Services Division +61-8-207-7860 (fax) | Southern Systems | Adelaide, AUSTRALIA