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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!uunet!pipex!uknet!bradford.ac.uk!T.D.G.Sandford From: T.D.G.Sandford@bradford.ac.uk (TDG SANDFORD) Subject: Re: NetBSD doesn't like DOS? Message-ID: <1993May11.091002.25449@bradford.ac.uk> Lines: 25 Organization: University of Bradford, UK X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL9] References: <1993May10.175619.19445@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Date: Tue, 11 May 1993 09:10:02 GMT A Wizard of Earth C (terry@cs.weber.edu) wrote: : There are problems with translated drive parameters; in particular, in : many cases it is not possible to turn off translation for DOS or to : turn on translation of anything not using the BIOS. : I would like to suggest that anyone running an IDE drive run a copy of : ide_conf.exe under DOS to get both the translated and untranslated : drive parameters. POST THESE WHEN YOU ASK A QUESTION REGARDING DISK : CONFIGURATION. : If you have a non-WD drive (like a SCSI drive), a copy of the program : pfdisk.exe should be run to get the translated parameters, and the : untranslated parameters will be reported by the SCSI driver when you boot : 386BSD/NetBSD. POST THESE WHEN YOU ASK A QUESTION REGARDING DISK : CONFIGURATION. *Please* could someone (the author ?) get ide_conf onto the "standard" 386bsd/netbsd archive sites (ie into the unofficial directory on agate for 386bsd, ?? for netbsd). It is an almost vital program for anyone wanting DOS and ???bsd to co-exist, but almost impossible to get hold of :-( -- Thomas Sandford | t.d.g.sandford@bradford.ac.uk