From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 29 19:48:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA16393 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 19:48:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from vespucci.iquest.com (vespucci.iquest.com [199.170.120.42]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA16375 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 19:48:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from [204.177.193.231] (n4hhe.ampr.org [204.177.193.231]) by vespucci.iquest.com (8.6.9/8.6.9 Secure) with SMTP id VAA13388; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 21:49:57 -0600 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 21:47:47 -0600 To: dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu From: dkelly@iquest.com (David Kelly) Subject: Re: Hardware Compatibility.. Cc: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Doug White said > >On Fri, 26 Jan 1996, Mark Jamison wrote: > >> Hi I was wondering if FreeBSD would run on my system.. >> >> My system is configured as follows: >> >> 486DX-2 50MHz >> 8 megs RAM >> EIDE Controller Card >> EIDE Mitsumi 4X CD-ROM >> EIDE Conner 850MB Hard Drive >> Soundblaster 16 >> Gravis Ultrasound ACE >> Cirrus SVGA VESA Card (1meg VRAM) > >Only sticky point may be your CDROM, since ATAPI isn't well supported >(slave on the primary disk only). Will eventually work though :) I think you have it backwards. The ATAPI CDROM has to be the master. And mine works on the 2nd IDE interface. Haven't stressed it to see if it breaks. -- David Kelly N4HHE, n4hhe@amsat.org, dkelly@iquest.com ============================================================= To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Edison