Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 20:31:42 -0400 From: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "jobaldwi@vt.edu" <jobaldwi@vt.edu> Subject: Re: Hard disk problems and some questions... Message-ID: <199809170033.UAA17052@laker.net>
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On Wed, 16 Sep 1998 12:41:11 -0400 (EDT), John Baldwin wrote: >Could it be that my controller card only supports PIO mode 0 or >something? My BIOS reports it as using mode 4, and I thought that BSD wouldn't >rely on that anyway. That's the problem... Your VLB IDE controller doesn't support Ultra DMA-33. You can try to find a newer VLB that does, but I've never seen one, and VLB cards are hard to find new these days... I'd buy a new AMD-K6 chip on a TX based motherboard, and use the 486 only as a firewall. Or a DOS based serial console with logging. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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