Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 21:47:47 -0600 From: dkelly@iquest.com (David Kelly) To: dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu Cc: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware Compatibility.. Message-ID: <v02130502ad33431648f7@[204.177.193.231]>
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Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> 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
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