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Date:      Fri, 10 Aug 2001 10:15:17 -0700
From:      "Srinivas Dharmasanam" <the_srinivas@hotmail.com>
To:        john@kozubik.com
Cc:        freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kernel probe on DiskonChip fails
Message-ID:  <F7vX5w0Yg83alUohIi60000555a@hotmail.com>

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I was able to use the 64MB DOC from the DOS utilities from M-Sys and boot 
from it. However from FreeBSD I'm having this problem.

I'm pretty sure that the fla driver is getting compiled and linked into the 
kernel.

Anything else I could try?

Thanks,
-Srinivas



>From: John Kozubik <john@kozubik.com>
>To: Srinivas Dharmasanam <the_srinivas@hotmail.com>
>CC: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG
>Subject: Re: kernel probe on DiskonChip fails
>Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 09:53:16 -0700 (PDT)
>
>
>All I can think of off the top of my head is:
>
>a) try a known-good DoC part ... perhaps you have a bad part.
>
>b) make _sure_ that the device line you show below really did get
>successfully compiled into your kernel.
>
>-----
>John Kozubik - john@kozubik.com - http://www.kozubik.com
>
>
>
>On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Srinivas Dharmasanam wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I'm trying to use a 64MB DiskonChip on a PIII SBC with the FreeBSD 4.2 
>but
> > am not able to get the kernel probe to recognize the DOC.
> >
> > I do have the kernel config file entry:
> >
> > device    fla0  at isa?
> >
> > The BIOS correctly recognizes and prints the message saying that it saw 
>the
> > M-Systems DOC.
> >
> > However, the kernel probe that is supposed to print something like,
> > "fla0 at iomem 0x...-0x... on isa0" never occurs and hence I am not able 
>to
> > see the device. I have the DOC jumper set to one of the 4 possible
> > configurations.
> >
> > Is there anything else I need to do other than add the kernel config 
>file
> > entry to use the DOC?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Srinivas
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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