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From: bouyer@antifer.ibp.fr (Manuel BOUYER)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Q:IDE on Alpha
Date: 18 Mar 1997 16:42:04 GMT
Organization: Universites Paris VI/Paris VII - France
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Karl N. Matthias (matthias.3@osu.edu) wrote:
> From what I have seen, it appears that IDE drives are not supported on
> Alpha, is this correct?  My understanding is that this is at least it
> part due to the SRM console not supporting them.  Linux MILO does,
> however.  Does anyone know if it is possible to boot NetBSD/Alpha from
> IDE using Linux MILO, or whether there is another way?  Or does
> something need to be done to the kernel?  Any info appreciated! Thanks

As far as I know, ide drives are not supported by the NetBSD kernel
yet, so you can't boot from an ide drive (at last you can't read anyhing
from it once the kernel is loaded).

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Manuel Bouyer, MASI, Universite Paris VI.
email: bouyer@masi.ibp.fr
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