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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.bugs:1517 comp.os.386bsd.questions:5491 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!daffy!uwvax!oka.cs.wisc.edu!jcargill From: jcargill@oka.cs.wisc.edu (Jon Cargille) Subject: Re: NetBSD won't recognize VLB IDE caching controller's disks Message-ID: <1993Sep30.145413.24124@cs.wisc.edu> Sender: news@cs.wisc.edu (The News) Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept References: <tps1.749261987@ra.msstate.edu> <28ce5p$5cb@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 14:54:13 GMT Lines: 29 In article <28ce5p$5cb@pdq.coe.montana.edu>, Jaye Mathisen <osyjm@cs.montana.edu> wrote: >In article <tps1.749261987@ra.msstate.edu>, >Timothy Schlie <tps1@Ra.MsState.Edu> wrote: >> >>I want NetBSD! FreeBSD is ok, but I wan NetBSD. Can anyone out there shed >>any light on my situation? Thanks in advance for any help. - Tim Schlie > >The NETBSD people use a different wd driver than FreeBSD. Apparently, that's >your problem. How to fix it? Figure out how to stuff the FreeBSD driver >into NetBSD. > >Other easy fix? Run FreeBSD, and wait until NetBSD *and* FreeBSD get a >*good* working wd driver that will support all wd drives with equal >facility. Or, the other way to go about this would be to run FreeBSD, install both the FreeBSD and NetBSD source trees, pull the wd driver out of FreeBSD and put it into NetBSD. Recompile the NetBSD kernel, and see if it works then... Just a thought, Jon -- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Jon Cargille jcargill@cs.wisc.edu Want your .sig compressed? Reasonable rates and fast turnaround. Call today!