*BSD News Article 10635


Return to BSD News archive

Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP
	id AA404 ; Sun, 31 Jan 93 14:06:26 EST
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!news.u.washington.edu!serval!luke.eecs.wsu.edu!hlu
From: hlu@luke.eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Subject: Re: 386BSD Installation
Message-ID: <1993Feb1.045800.20194@serval.net.wsu.edu>
Sender: news@serval.net.wsu.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Washington State University!
References: <1993Jan31.090002.2601@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> <1993Jan31.224750.19475@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 93 04:58:00 GMT
Lines: 19

In article <1993Jan31.224750.19475@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:

[...]

>The WD7000 is not supported.  The fact that it comes up in the inventory
>is precisely what has kept me from releasing a driver for the thing under
>Julian's SCSI system.  Basically, the thing *shouldn't* be recognized by
>the wd driver's probe -- I can fix it, but it means IDE drives aren't
>recognized either.
>
>This is probably why AT&T provides SVR4.0 SCSI and ESDI bootables on two
>sets of disks rather than just a single set of disks: they couldn't fix
>it either.
>

I might be wrong. Linux bootable has both WD7000 and IDE supportorts. I
just built it aonly tried it with my IDE.

H.J.