From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 11 10:33:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fortune.excite.com (fortune-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D30637BB17 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 10:33:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben.madison@excite.com) Received: from bernie.excite.com ([199.172.148.157]) by fortune.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20000411162645.PKL19615.fortune.excite.com@bernie.excite.com> for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 09:26:45 -0700 Message-ID: <25551692.955470405443.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 09:26:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Ben Madison To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Can I boot from CD-ROM on a Symbios SCSI card? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 203.216.43.123 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi... I'm trying out a couple of Symbios-based SCSI cards, but I can't seem to convince them to boot from CD-ROM. The cards are a Planex SC-EXLV2-3 (based on the 53C895) and an ASUS PCI-SC896 (based, not surprisingly, on the 53C896). Does anyone know if these chipsets support booting from CD? I have Adaptec 2940x cards in some other machines, and they boot fine... I sort of assumed that boot from CD was a standard feature, these days. Is that not the case? Are there any cheaper (than Adaptec), supported (by FreeBSD, naturally) Ultra2 cards out there you'd care to recommend, especially any that you know will boot from CD? Thanks very much, jbm bmad AT pobox DOT com _______________________________________________________ Get 100% FREE Internet Access powered by Excite Visit http://freelane.excite.com/freeisp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message