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Date:      Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:10:31 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        eric@cirr.com (Eric Schnoebelen)
Cc:        shsrms@bellatlantic.net, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Potential Newbie Question 
Message-ID:  <199912140110.RAA01699@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Dec 1999 11:42:11 CST." <199912131742.LAA16003@egsner.cirr.com> 

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> Mike Smith writes:
> - > Looking in the various FreeBSD resources on the net, I do find
> - > refs to jkh running SCSI drives on a PC164, so, does FreeBSD support
> - > IDE drives on this beast?
> - 
> - They should work, but you can't boot from them (only the PC164SX supports 
> - that AFAIK).
> 
> 	Please don't tell my PC164 that it can't boot from an IDE
> drive! :-)
> 
> 	Seriously, with a late model SRM, the PC164 MB can boot
> from an IDE drive without any problems.
> 
> 	Note: I'm currently running NetBSD on that system, and
> haven't tried to boot FreeBSD off of the IDE drive, so there may
> be issues in FreeBSD with it.  However, SRM understands and can
> boot from the IDE drive.

Cool.  Now I have to go pull the box and see if it works here.  Just to 
be sure, this is a PC164 you're talking about, not a PC164LX, PC164UX or 
PC164SX, right?

Thanks for the heads-up!

-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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