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Date:      Sat, 13 Nov 1999 11:46:42 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Cc:        mjacob@feral.com, alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how solid is ata/wdc on alpha for -current? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911131145120.25540-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <19991113095014.EE09C1C6D@overcee.netplex.com.au>

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On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Peter Wemm wrote:

> Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > 
> > Never mind. I risked all and have lived so far...
> 
> It works?  We can boot from an IDE disk now on the Alphas (and SRM's) that
> support it?

Yes. There were some problems a few weeks ago with the timeouts being
wrong (not being expressed in terms of hz) but they are fixed now. I think
you can even install to an ATA disk although I haven't tested that.

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037




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