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From: souchu@pinocchio.news.u-psud.fr (Nicolas Souchu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Unable to boot with Promise ISA E-IDE
Date: 17 Jan 1996 17:12:30 GMT
Organization: Universite Paris-Sud, France.
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In-reply-to: rwlin@osil.csie.ntu.edu.tw's message of 17 Jan 1996 12:43:24 GMT

In article <4diqtc$9jc@news.cis.nctu.edu.tw> rwlin@osil.csie.ntu.edu.tw (Dennis Lin) writes:

| Hello,
| 	Does anybody use the Promise EIDE MAX? I can't boot from the 
| boot.flp floopy for further installing with this eide card. Everything 
| is ok if I remove this card from my computer. Or should I change to a 
| new mother board that supports eide? 

I've got an EIDE Promise 2300+ card, I can install FreeBSD with it,
but I can't boot from its EIDE HD (WD Caviar) after installation.

Maybe Promise is not compatible with FreeBSD... :^((

nicolas
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Nicolas SOUCHU - DEA d'Architectures Paralleles 95 - LRI - France
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