From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 18 00:44:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA02748 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 00:44:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from soleil.uvsq.fr (soleil.uvsq.fr [193.51.24.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA02743 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 00:44:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from guillotin.prism.uvsq.fr (guillotin.prism.uvsq.fr [193.51.25.1]) by soleil.uvsq.fr (8.7.5/jtpda-5.2) with ESMTP id JAA28656 ; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 09:44:05 +0200 (METDST) Received: from angrand.prism.uvsq.fr (angrand.prism.uvsq.fr [193.51.25.85]) by guillotin.prism.uvsq.fr (8.7.5/jtpda-5.2) with ESMTP id JAA16316 ; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 09:44:03 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from (son@localhost) by angrand.prism.uvsq.fr (8.7.5/jtpda-5.2) id KAA00186 ; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 10:46:48 +0200 (MET DST) To: ALHACK@am.pnu.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD disk drivers References: <1ed33f50@am.pnu.com> From: Nicolas Souchu Date: 18 Jul 1996 10:46:44 +0200 In-Reply-To: ALHACK@am.pnu.com's message of Wed, 17 Jul 1996 14:34:00 -0400 Message-ID: Lines: 18 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.25/XEmacs 19.14 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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