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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can't install on 386 SX 16mhz Date: 28 Sep 1996 16:11:30 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <52jini$2p5@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <324360F5.CA09605@sympatico.ca> <01bba814$ee70c200$e916abc7@pcrawlings.jlsc.wpafb.af.mil> <523knb$sbu@klemm.gtn.com> <324C6256.3A20BC5D@sympatico.ca> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Stephane Lajeunesse <slajeunesse@sympatico.ca> wrote: > I think I've found the problem. When I installed NetBSD, it detected my > Hard Disk controller as a ST506. I think I saw somewhere (probably the > FAQ) that the ST506 controller is not supported in the generic Kernel. IDE *is* ST506. Actually, it's a WD1003/WD1007-style register interface. (The only thing the WD1007 ESDI controller added above the WD1003 MFM controller was the ability to get the identity of the disk. IDE supports this as well.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)