Subject: Re: Booting from IDE on Multia
To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
List: port-alpha
Date: 02/25/2000 21:32:13
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 02:30:07PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
>
> David Brownlee writes:
> > On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 09:56:50AM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> > >
> > > > It would only be of real benefit for people who have devices from
> > > > which they can only boot via ARC (Miatas etc :). For them, it
> > >
> > > What is it that you want to boot on the Miata that SRM can't ?
> > > Adaptecs maybe?
> >
> > IDE?
>
> Miatas boot just fine from IDE devices using the SRM console. The
> have to -- they all have IDE CDROM drives for use as the installation
> device with Tru64.
Exactly my point ;-) I guess this is a Multia / Miata mixup.
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