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From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Gateway 2000 and FreeBSD2.0
Date: 17 Jan 1995 16:25:46 +0100
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Josh Minor <jminor@cory.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
> I am considering buying a Gateway2000 P4D-66 in the near future and
>I would like to know if anyone has had any experience (good or bad) with
>running FreeBSD2.0 on one.
Some of the Gateway 2000 mainboards (hmm, and you'll never actually
know what's inside until you've got the box and opened the case :) are
known to have floppy controllers FreeBSD 2.0 had troubles with. They
caused a spurious interrupt on startup which in turn confused the
floppy driver. This is fixed in the current sources, so i'd rather
recommend the recent snapshot release instead of 2.0. At the very
least, fall back to the latest boot floppies in case you're
experiencing those annoying ``fd0... <no_am>'' problems.
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