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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!pipex!uunet!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!murdoch!ascus.micr.Virginia.EDU!mms7r From: mms7r@ascus.micr.Virginia.EDU (M. Mitchell Smith) Subject: Re: Promise EIDE controller fails to boot from hard drive Message-ID: <D15xLy.Mv@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia References: <D12C86.HFF@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1994 13:32:22 GMT Lines: 17 Don't ya love to talk to yourself? :-) In article <D12C86.HFF@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> I wrote: |> My system came with an "enhanced" IDE VLB disk controller from |> Promise Technology, Inc., the EIDE2300Plus. With this controller, |> the system won't boot from the hard disk. I thought I'd better follow up since everything does work. The problem was the external bios code on the controller. This was loading into memory and causing the BSD boot to hang. Once the external bios was physically disabled by changing the jumpers on the controller card, everything worked. -- M. Mitchell Smith mms7r@Virginia.EDU Department of Microbiology (804) 924-2669 University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22908