Date: 18 Jul 1996 10:46:44 +0200 From: Nicolas Souchu <Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr> To: ALHACK@am.pnu.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD disk drivers Message-ID: <s607ms2ne2z.fsf@angrand.prism.uvsq.fr> In-Reply-To: ALHACK@am.pnu.com's message of Wed, 17 Jul 1996 14:34:00 -0400 References: <1ed33f50@am.pnu.com>
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ALHACK@am.pnu.com writes: > > The controller is a Promise EIDE2300 PLUS VESA Local Bus with on board BIOS > that takes over the hard disk fuctions from the mother board BIOS. The disk > drive is a Western Digital Caviar AC21000. This combination works well with > DOS and Windows 3.1 . The Promise BIOS is buggy. Either disable it with jumpers (you'll have some problems with your 1Gb disk if your motherboard's BIOS do not support it) or use fbsdboot.exe from DOS. This exec is in /sys/i386/boot/dosboot. nicolas -- Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr Laboratoire PRiSM - Versailles, FRANCE
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