On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 11:23:32PM +0100, ropers wrote: > On 08/02/2008, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However, > > I suppose that some things internally would be on the EISA bus (e.g. > > keyboard, floppy drive). > > Huh? The FDC and PS/2 ports are on the EISA bus? > <confused />
My only experience with servers was well before I bought my Athlon64. I wanted to get out of the i386 and get onto a real "unix" box. IBM had the best, most complete, online documentation so I looked at RS/6000 boxes. Would have bought a 7025-H50 if I could have booted Debian Sarge (stable at the time, never having tried testing). As it turned out later, I couldn't boot Sarge on my Athlon64 either and had to go with Etch pre Beta3. Anyway, on the RS/6000, which was a combo ISA/PCI bus, the slow "legacy" stuff like floppy controller and keyboard were on the ISA bus (which was itself hung off of one of the PCI busses). My comment was in relation to the comment that the EISA bus would cause problems. Presumably if something fundamental was, internally, on the EISA bus and OBSD couldn't find the bus, then those fundamental things wouldn't work in OBSD either. All-in-all I wish two things: 1. RS/6000 that are coming up on 20 years old didn't still have a 4-figure price tag. 2. OBSD ran on RS/6000. -- Doug.
