Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 09:10:05 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Cc: sycheng@cis.ufl.edu Subject: Re: [HELP] Cannot boot Message-ID: <199602170810.JAA08144@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <10121.824534415@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Feb 16, 96 09:20:15 pm
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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > That's too bad. Ok, If Promise VLB EIDE controller is not good enough, > > Could you please recommend me a better one which is FreeBSD compatible ? > > Woog. He wants me to recommend an IDE controller.. Help me out guys, > I never buy IDE controllers! :-) Adaptec AHA1540, BusLogic Bt742, NCR 53c810, ... Ooops. They aren't IDE, you say? Right you are! The dumbest IDE ``controllers'' (2 74F245's, one GAL for the address decoder) will do it best. The idea of the computer industry to replace these sort of really simple IDE adapters by those ``smart guys'' they are so fond of these days, thus attempting to save the antique ST-506 disk interface into the 90's instead of banning it forever and using the well-established SCSI was one of their biggest mistakes within the last 3 years. -- 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. ;-)
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