From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 11 11:24: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from enterweb.enterit.com (enterweb.enterit.com [209.45.199.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0B6C37BB96 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 11:24:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jconner@enterit.com) Received: from KWAN [209.45.199.38] by enterweb.enterit.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-5.04) id ADC617C1011C; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 14:24:06 DT Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20000411143224.01697f00@mail.enterit.com> X-Sender: notjames@mail.pseudonet.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 14:33:30 -0400 To: Ben Madison , questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Jim C Subject: Re: Can I boot from CD-ROM on a Symbios SCSI card? In-Reply-To: <25551692.955470405443.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You should be able to. I've done it. => I have had problems in the past with symbios in the past though (as far as timeouts are concerned) Jim At 09.26 11.04.00 -0700, Ben Madison wrote: >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message