On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, David A. Gatwood wrote:

> 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

To be honest, I didn't think about that, one would think, that it would
however, if for some reason (I can't think of one) the IDE generated
an unexpected interrupt, or if the IDE memory addresses are maped as
general memory and then used by the systems one would expect instability
but the truth is I just don't know, try it and find out.


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