Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 23:33:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: Al.Johnson@AJC.State.Net, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What I consider and odd install Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970713232838.16170D-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <199707140629.PAA08552@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Michael Smith wrote: > Tom Samplonius stands accused of saying: > > > > How about enabling BIOS support for more drives? Boot easy should see > > the other drives, if the bios does, unless there is a design limitation in > > boot easy. > > Booteasy, especially 1.7, is very old. It dates from the days when > most biossen only supported two drives (as previously mentioned). > > There is no correct way of discovering whether the BIOS supports more > drives. > > You're invited to find the booteasy source code and improve on it. 8) Strange... booteasy was a rather new addition to FreeBSD (2.0, 2.05, or something... well that is "somewhat new"). Adaptec 2940 has had the "bios support for more than two drives" option for a long time. Does os-bs really work in this case (ie. when booteasy doesn't)? > -- > ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ > ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ > ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ > ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ > ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[ > > Tom
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