Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 11:14:17 +0300 From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: Hans van Reenen <H.vanReenen@UCI.KUN.NL> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: some questions before installation FreeBSD 2.2.2 Message-ID: <33D70ED9.1EFA@barcode.co.il> References: <Pine.A41.3.95.970723194534.58110A-100000@baserv.uci.kun.nl>
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Hans van Reenen wrote: > > Hello, > > I am not sure, are the following components be able to run FreeBsd ? > > - Video: Diamond Stealth64 Video 2001 chipset S3 765 FreeBSD can use almost any graphics card. For X-windows (XFree86), the Diamond should be supported. Full details are on http://www.xfree86.org > > - Cdrom: Vertos 400HTD 4 speed (atapi), > > According the boot flop operation, this cdrom is detected but it recognize > no cd inside. The following message appears (during boot the system with > the FreeBSD bootflop) when FreeBSD does a probe on the second IDE port. > > "atapi1.0: unkown phase". This appears with many ATAPI drives. Boot the boot floppy, with the CD in the drive, and try to set the media type to CDROM in sysinstall (somewhere under options I beleive). If it lets you do that - the CD was recognized. > > I think that FreeBSD will not support this cd-rom drive. But I am not for > sure. > > Which ATAPI drive('s) does guarantee FreeBSD support ??? > > Thanks in advance. > > \\\|/// > \\ ~ ~ // > ( @ @ ) > -------------oOOo-(_)-oOOo------------- > Hans van Reenen > medewerker van het uci, sectie cs-ops > tel : 024-3617949 > email: h.vanreenen@uci.kun.nl > www : http://baserv.uci.kun.nl/~hvreenen > ------------------------Oooo.---------- > .oooO ( ) > ( ) ( ) > \ ) (_/ > - Nadav
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