Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Fri, 3 Oct 1997 10:35:39 +0000
From:      Nicolas Souchu <Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr>
To:        David Langford <langfod@dihelix.com>
Cc:        hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ppbus problem
Message-ID:  <19971003103539.63667@coreff.prism.uvsq.fr>
In-Reply-To: <199710021244.CAA01731@caliban.dihelix.com>; from David Langford on Thu, Oct 02, 1997 at 02:44:21AM -1000
References:  <19971002133432.18047@coreff.prism.uvsq.fr> <199710021244.CAA01731@caliban.dihelix.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, Oct 02, 1997 at 02:44:21AM -1000, David Langford wrote:
>Couple of quick things I learned when doing this on a current
>system recently.
>
>1) Be sure you BIOS is set to EPP and NOT ECP. 
>   - for me everything looked fine but it didnt probe the drive

It didn't probe NIBBLE or PS2 mode either? Did the ppc driver say
"ppc: port not present at ...". If not, the answer is 3) then. Otherwise,
even in ECP mode, ppc should have found something.

>2) dont forget to have sd in your kernel
>   - ditto (actually it took me awhile to figure this out)
>3) be sure ppc is ENABLED in the kernel not disabled :)
>   - Doh!(TM)

-- 
Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr
FreeBSD - Turning PC's into workstations - http://www.FreeBSD.org



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19971003103539.63667>