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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Adatptec 1515 Date: 5 Oct 1996 15:09:42 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <535tnm$1gb@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <32417771.41C67EA6@grolier.fr> <3242009C.26A6@sprynet.com> <52jkoi$8s@uriah.heep.sax.de> <52piuj$14h@newsbr.eunet.fr> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E fgm@osinet.fr (Frederic G. MARAND) wrote: > >Yes, even the 1540A works fine for me (this is a `super-long' card), > > There is at least a restriction on 154x version A and B: you have to > have the "gigabyte proms" (not one of the early ones) to handle drives > over 1 GB successfully. On old versions, this means reprogramming the > chip. You are wrong. My BIOS ROM is certainly much older, and i can use an 1.2 GB drive fine. Under FreeBSD, i mean. Of course, you can only have your /kernel at a location where the BIOS can reach it. Since this is usually in the root f/s, and a typical root file system is only ~ 50 MB in size, this ain't a particular problem however. As i wrote: the only requirement for FreeBSD is that the firmware supports scatter/gather transfers. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)