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From: "Gary Chrysler" <tcg@ime.net>
To: "James Hu" <jxh@cs.wustl.edu>, <john@starfire.mn.org>
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Subject: Re: detailed instructions for dial-up PPP installation?
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 20:13:54 -0400
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Umm, Actually FreeBSD prefers to have ATAPI drives as slaves
on the primary controller!

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> From: James Hu <jxh@cs.wustl.edu>
> To: john@starfire.mn.org
> Cc: questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: detailed instructions for dial-up PPP installation?
> Date: Tuesday, October 08, 1996 7:03 PM
> 
> Hello,
> 
> <john@starfire.mn.org> writes:
> > James wrote:
> >> HARDWARE.TXT
> >> INSTALL.TXT
> >> KNOWNBUG.TXT
> >> README.TXT
> >> RELNOTES.TXT
> > I should also have mentioned that I read all of these, and INSTALL.TXT
> > has a rather cursory and superficial description of what to do --
> > sort of on the order of a summary, but no details.  I did look
> > there, first.
> 
> What didn't you understand?  I am sure that the FreeBSD team want
> input on this.  It is not their intention to leave newcomers to
> FreeBSD confused.
> 
> >> Otherwise, I believe the ATAPI driver wants the CDROM drive to
> >> be the slave drive of the secondary IDE controller (a second IDE
> >> controller running on irq 15).
> > Hmmm.  Anyway to get it to look at a slave drive on the PRIMARY
> > controller???  If we could get that working, it'd be best for us.
> 
> I don't know of a way to do this.  Perhaps someone on the FreeBSD team
> can provide you with a boot floppy set in this manner?
> 
> -- James