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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)


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