From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Nov 2 12:20:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA28369 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 12:20:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA28364 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 12:20:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA01131; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 12:18:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199811022018.MAA01131@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Andrew Gallatin cc: Mike Smith , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 02 Nov 1998 09:31:26 EST." <13885.48882.447485.570592@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 12:18:51 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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