From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 23 18:00:40 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id SAA22395 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 18:00:40 -0800 Received: from UConnVM.UConn.Edu (uconnvm.uconn.edu [137.99.26.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id SAA22389 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 18:00:39 -0800 Received: from MARKYMAT.STAM.UCONN.EDU by UConnVM.UConn.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with TCP; Thu, 23 Feb 95 21:00:31 EST Received: from UCSTAM1/MAIL_Q by MARKYMAT.STAM.UCONN.EDU (Mercury 1.13); Thu, 23 Feb 95 20:59:28 +1100 Received: from MAIL_Q by UCSTAM1 (Mercury 1.13); Thu, 23 Feb 95 20:59:21 +1100 From: "Jason W. Adamoski" To: David Greenman , questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 20:59:19 EST Subject: Re: help for a newbee X-pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.1 (R1a) Message-ID: <197C01E2307@MARKYMAT.STAM.UCONN.EDU> Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > To: "Jason W. Adamoski" > Copies to: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: help for a newbee > From: David Greenman > Send reply to: davidg@Root.COM > Date sent: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 17:53:39 -0800 > >> > cpu: 386dx33 > >> > ram: 8mb more to be added if needed > >> > hd: 1. 250mb ide samsung > >> > 1. 20mb old mfm/rll :) > >> ^^^^^^^^^^^ > >> Won't work with 2.0R...but I doubt you care. :-) > > > >actually i do, thanx for telling me so before i had installed it in... > > It actually sort of works - it works but without bad block support. I don't > think I've ever seen an MFM drive without bad blocks... > > -DG > true mine has 3 bad blocks ;) just another thing... does FreeBSD not supporting an ide cdrom means i can install it from an ide cdrom? or that it wont run an ide cdrom under the os? pls. let me know to knok if am gonna have to use floppies... l8r Jadam