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From: osprey@wwa.com (Lucas D. Adamski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: IDE Controller Problem
Date: 23 Oct 1996 02:51:39 GMT
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J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de), on 20 Oct 1996 15:15:12 GMT, gushed:
{ Does it come with an own BIOS? If so, try disabling it. There are
{ known incompatibilities with VL IDE controllers when the BIOS was
{ enabled.
{ Try replacing it by a `generic' IDE controller. The VL-nes won't gain
{ you anything at all under FreeBSD.
I finally did get it working, even though I'm not sure quite how. I kept
fiddling with the various dip switches, etc till one day the boot disk
just saw them. But now I have a different problem (of course). To recap,
I'm running a Conner 30544 as the master with a DOS partition & the boot
manager, and a Seagate 3391A as the BSD slave. The problem is, that while
the boot disk detects the slave just fine (and installation goes ok), it
doesn't detect it when I boot off the hard drive. The boot manager finds
it, but when boot off the BSD partition on the slave, the kernel loads ok
but then fails to detect the slave during the hardware detection phase
(and so fails to mount the filesystems). The oddest thing is, if I put it
into -c configuration mode rather than hitting enter, go into the visual
mode, save & quit, then the kernel DOES detect the slave and mounts
everything just fine. I'd think that it was a hardware conflict, except
that this problem always occurs when I use the default (enter) boot, and
it always works fine when I go through the -c (save & quit), even without
actually changing any of the settings. Anyone have any ideas what could
be causing this? Does the -c use the same kernel as the default?
Thanks,
Lucas.
{ --
{ cheers, J"org
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{ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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