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Date:      Tue, 23 Apr 2002 20:20:02 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>
To:        howie@thingy.com
Cc:        freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Flash Support in older mobos?
Message-ID:  <20020423.202002.74596788.imp@village.org>
In-Reply-To: <003201c1ea46$013f9900$fa37a8c0@jubjub>
References:  <003201c1ea46$013f9900$fa37a8c0@jubjub>

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In message: <003201c1ea46$013f9900$fa37a8c0@jubjub>
            "Howard Jones" <howie@thingy.com> writes:
: Hi,
: After a few weekends fiddling, I have a small FreeBSD config I am happy with
: to use as a firewall at home (and a couple of others for an XTerminal and a
: full-featured router for research at work). I have a couple of flash devices
: to use as the boot devices - a 16Mb DiskOnModule, and an old 16Mb CF card
: with an IDE adapter. These work fine in my test machine, but not in my
: target PC - an old Acer P75 system. The test machine is a new SiS630 chipset
: mobo, that will be my XTerminal, but what is support like in older systems
: for DoM or CFs? Was I just unlucky?

Sometimes with older machines you can get it working by specifically
setting the geometry in the BIOS.  Sometimes, having a slave device
makes the IDE adapters work better too, I don't know why.

Warner

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