Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 12:18:51 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing Message-ID: <199811022018.MAA01131@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Nov 1998 09:31:26 EST." <13885.48882.447485.570592@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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> > Mike Smith writes: > > > 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. > > Don't get too excited. I imagine that the SRM console's recognition of > IDE devices is limited to those platforms which ship with Atapi CDROM > drives. I think that's limited to DPWs. This almost certainly won't > work on a multia. Fooey. 8) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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