From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 9 7:36:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E412150C8 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 07:36:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA05399; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 10:36:47 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 10:36:47 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Donn Miller Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MCA support In-Reply-To: <384F76D2.938FD166@cvzoom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Donn Miller wrote: > Just wondering how far along MCA support is. I tried booting up a > kern.flp from the latest snapshot circa dec. 7. and I got a "Read > error" during boot, which halted the machine. My machine was an IBM > PS/2 model 77s. MCA support isn't in GENERIC and wouldn't be on kern.flp. My m77 has weird problems reading the floppy drive. I'm fairly sure this has everything to do with code in the loader/bootstrap that doesn't like the 2.88M drive. I used the 1.2M drive and it works great. I suspect a normal 1.44M drive would be good too. I've observed problems with the graphics console keyboard. I suspect I'm not doing something about the differences b/t a PS2 keyboard controller and a normal AT controller but I've no idea what needs to be done. The baseboard SCSI on the m77 isn't supported. You'll want an Adaptec AHA-1640. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message