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From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Can NetBSD-0.9 and DOS get along?
Date: 18 Feb 1994 00:21:48 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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In-reply-to: adam@veda.is's message of Mon, 14 Feb 1994 12:52:59 GMT


In article <CL7t4q.A0p@veda.is> adam@veda.is (Adam David) writes:


   >Unless you disable the FDC on the Adaptec card, you'll find that you won't
   >be able to boot from *any* floppy.

   Why so? I am using the floppy port on an aha-1542B and it works.

Same here.  I think his point is (correctly) that you have to be
careful of conflicts between a builtin floppy controller, if you have
one, and the one on the 1542B.  If your machine already has a floppy
controller, the one on the 1542B should be disabled or moved to the
secondary address.

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- Charles Hannum
  NetBSD group
  Working ports: i386, hp300, amiga, sparc, mac68k, pc532.
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