Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 23:51:04 -0500 From: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> To: "fbsdqs" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Spike Gronim" <spork@pigstuy.dyn.ml.org>, "sporkl@ix.netcom.com" <sporkl@ix.netcom.com> Subject: Re: SparQ drive Message-ID: <199811050452.XAA14969@laker.net>
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On Wed, 4 Nov 1998 21:23:32 -0500 (EST), Spike Gronim wrote: > I just got an internal IDE SparQ 1G drive. It is recognized as the >secondary master by my BIOS. I have the following in my kernel: > >controller wdc1 at isa? port "IO_WD2" bio irq 15 vector wdintr >disk wd2 at wdc1 drive 0 >disk wd3 at wdc1 drive 1 > > But dmesg simply reports: > >wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa > > There is a cartridge in the drive. How can I get this thing >detected by FreeBSD? If your BIOS reported it on the startup screen, like it does the rest of the BIOS detected devices, I would have expected it to fly. The trouble I ran into (when attempting to use one for DOS, Win3.1, Win95, OS/2 testing) was finding a BIOS that would detect it so I could boot off it. I had a clone moboard based on the AMD K5 and it wouldn't detect it, but a clone (taiwan) moboard with the 200 MHz Pentium MMX worked fine. Still, I had problems with OS/2 and WinNT because they knew it was removable media and they didn't like that being a boot device... BTW, I just read today that SyQuest filed chapter 11... I hope they recover. I like their drives MUCH better than Iomega... Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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