From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Nov 2 01:52:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA11677 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 01:52:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA11670 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 01:52:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA02902; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 09:50:53 GMT Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 09:50:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Mike Smith cc: Andrew Gallatin , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing In-Reply-To: <199811012206.OAA06107@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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