Chris Dillon wrote: > On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > I think that would be a very good idea. The boot software issue > > is negligible, because there aren't any USB devices you can boot > > from. > > You mean can't boot from USB devices in just FreeBSD, or anywhere? > I've not actually tried it yet, but many motherboard vendors have > added the ability to boot from USB ZIP drives and probably other USB > mass storage devices to their BIOSes, so it at least should be > possible.
Good point. I didn't know that (my BIOSes certainly can't do that). Then I'd be interested how those BIOSes access the umass devices. They certainly don't contain a list of quirks, and I guess they don't try 6-byte commands at all and then fall back to 10-byte. According to Gérard's information, I assume that all USB umass devices are new enough to be able to handle 10-byte commands. USB is certainly newer than the SCSI-2 standard. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
