Subject: Re: Booting from IDE on Multia
To: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 02/25/2000 14:30:07
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.

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