From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Oct 3 07:19:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA16265 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 07:19:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from soleil.uvsq.fr (soleil.uvsq.fr [193.51.24.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA16202 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 07:19:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cezanne.prism.uvsq.fr (rtc105.reseau.uvsq.fr [193.51.24.21]) by soleil.uvsq.fr (8.8.6/jtpda-5.2) with ESMTP id QAA21590 ; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 16:14:45 +0200 (METDST) Received: (from son@localhost) by cezanne.prism.uvsq.fr (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA00255; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 10:35:40 GMT Message-ID: <19971003103539.63667@coreff.prism.uvsq.fr> Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 10:35:39 +0000 From: Nicolas Souchu To: David Langford Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppbus problem References: <19971002133432.18047@coreff.prism.uvsq.fr> <199710021244.CAA01731@caliban.dihelix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <199710021244.CAA01731@caliban.dihelix.com>; from David Langford on Thu, Oct 02, 1997 at 02:44:21AM -1000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD coreff 2.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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