Re: MCA support

1999-12-10 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: My m77 has weird problems reading the floppy drive. I'm fairly sure this has everything to do with code in the loader/bootstrap that doesn't like the 2.88M drive. I used the 1.2M drive and it works great. I suspect a normal 1.44M drive

MCA support

1999-12-09 Thread Donn Miller
Just wondering how far along MCA support is. I tried booting up a kern.flp from the latest snapshot circa dec. 7. and I got a "Read error" during boot, which halted the machine. My machine was an IBM PS/2 model 77s. I'd like to make an mca picobsd release as well. -- - Donn To U

Re: MCA support

1999-12-09 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Donn Miller wrote: Just wondering how far along MCA support is. I tried booting up a kern.flp from the latest snapshot circa dec. 7. and I got a "Read error" during boot, which halted the machine. My machine was an IBM PS/2 model 77s. MCA support isn't

Re: MCA support

1999-12-09 Thread Mike Smith
Just wondering how far along MCA support is. I tried booting up a kern.flp from the latest snapshot circa dec. 7. and I got a "Read error" during boot, which halted the machine. My machine was an IBM PS/2 model 77s. That's probably a bad floppy. You should at least get

Re: MCA support

1999-12-09 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Mike Smith wrote: My m77 has weird problems reading the floppy drive. I'm fairly sure this has everything to do with code in the loader/bootstrap that doesn't like the 2.88M drive. I used the 1.2M drive and it works great. I suspect a normal 1.44M drive would be

Re: MCA support

1999-12-09 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
My m77 has weird problems reading the floppy drive. I'm fairly sure this has everything to do with code in the loader/bootstrap that doesn't like the 2.88M drive. I used the 1.2M drive and it works great. I suspect a normal 1.44M drive would be good too. The loader just uses the

Re: MCA support

1999-12-09 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
My m77 has weird problems reading the floppy drive. I'm fairly sure this has everything to do with code in the loader/bootstrap that doesn't like the 2.88M drive. I used the 1.2M drive and it works great. I suspect a normal 1.44M drive would be good too. The loader just uses the

Re: Compile new kernel with MCA support

1999-11-20 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
I am quite well aware of the mailing list etiquette. I read through many of them frequently. Then you're aware that cross posts are also strongly frowned upon, especially on both -current and -hackers. Only one mailing list at a time please, no cross posts. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send

Re: Compile new kernel with MCA support

1999-11-20 Thread Jason Craig
6:03 PM Subject: Re: Compile new kernel with MCA support [moved to -current] On Friday, 19 November 1999 at 17:27:15 -0500, Jason Craig wrote: On Friday, 19 November 1999 at 17:32:20 -0500, Jason Craig wrote: On Friday, 19 November 1999 at 17:38:07 -0500, Jason wrote: Hello all, I have

Re: Compile new kernel with MCA support

1999-01-17 Thread Greg Lehey
[moved to -current] On Friday, 19 November 1999 at 17:27:15 -0500, Jason Craig wrote: On Friday, 19 November 1999 at 17:32:20 -0500, Jason Craig wrote: On Friday, 19 November 1999 at 17:38:07 -0500, Jason wrote: Hello all, I have a few FreeBSD machines that I am playing around with now, and