On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Christopher R. Bowman wrote:

> >Hello,
> >
> >I only just subscribed the port-mac68k-digest so I am sorry for asking
> >an old boring question.
> >
> >I have a performa 630 with and internal IDE harddisk and an external
> >SCSI harddisk. In case I would upgrade to a full 86040 processor
> >with FPU would I then be able to run NetBSD including X?
> >
> >Thank you,
> >
> >Jens
> >
> >PS: I don't know what will appear in the digest so I would be
> >grateful if you could send me an anwer to my private address:
> 
> Nope, IDE drives are deal breakers as far as netbsd/mac is concerned.  Now,
> lest some one stick their head in and say "oh, but the other ports have IDE
> support, it should work, or should be easy to do", let me say that it
> doesn't work today, it won't work till someone write code to do it, and I
> am aware of no one who is even looking at doing it.

No, but he mentioned an external SCSI drive.  The system should work using
the SCSI drive for NetBSD, shouldn't it?  Or are there other problems
caused by that extra bus hanging around?


David

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