Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 09:50:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9811020949240.454-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <199811012206.OAA06107@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > On the other hand, you can boot from an IDE disk on a Digital Personal > > Workstation. Digital won't admit it, but Digital UNIX 4.0d boots & > > runs just fine with an IDE disk as its root disk. I imagine this will > > work for us once IDE support makes it into FreeBSD/alpha. > > Holy smoke! What do these drives show up as? This'll be a lifesaver > for anyone with a Multia if it works there. I was vaguely thinking that it would be best to wait for the new atapi driver before porting it to the alpha. Perhaps thats a bad idea; does anyone know what timeframe Soren is working towards? -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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