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Date:      Sun, 5 Jul 1998 00:51:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Patrick Walker <pwalker@nb.sympatico.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: I'm having trouble.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980705005038.11562J-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <359E5FC8.5ED117E6@nb.sympatico.ca>

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On Sat, 4 Jul 1998, Patrick Walker wrote:

> I hope this is the right address.  I've gone through most of the FAQs
> and tried just about
> everything.
> 
> Okay.
> First I have an Acer AP5t Motherboard.  I set the BIOS PnP OS to No.  I
> read somewhere on the
> site that this might prevent the blue-screen 'probing devices' screen
> from going into what seems to
> be an infinte loop reading/writing to either or both of my HDDs. 

Have you let it sit for about a minute?  My laptp takes about 45 seconds
to finish probing. It should be fixed in the next version.

> I disabled my IOMega Ditto drive.  If Jaz and Zips make FreeBSD
> difficult the odds are pretty good
> the Ditto will do the same.

No, a ditto is a floppy tape, which isn't supportd; the zips just give
sysinstall some pains.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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