ATAPI Drive & Naming System

1999-03-02 Thread IdiotSwitch Editor
>Remember that disks are now numbered in the sequence in which >they are found (as under the SCSI system), not in absolute >positions as they were with the old system. For example, if you >had wd0 and wd2 but no wd1, you'll now have wd0 and wd1. Watch >out f

Re: AMD K6-2 for smp

1999-02-19 Thread IdiotSwitch Editor
I understand that you can purchase special motherboards (probably only from AMD) for SMP K6-2's (possibly they'll take -3's as well). I doubt (without trying) the freebsd code supports this style as it's not done in the normal fashion. They kind of cheated the chips into working together. Not a

Ideas?

1999-01-28 Thread IdiotSwitch Editor
I can't code, so I wouldn't know how to implement these. Or even if it's possible. Parallel device loading. I know that freebsd's boot sequence can continue loading new devices while waiting for other devices to respond with irq's and whatnot. However, could this be taken a step further and hav