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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Path: sserve!rodos1!wkt
From: wkt@rodos1.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey)
Subject: 386BSD: Use IDE drives in native (not transl) mode
Message-ID: <1992Jul31.080337.2772@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au>
Keywords: IDE not translation but native
Sender: news@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au
Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 08:03:37 GMT

A quick note for those IDE owners running in translation mode. I finally
got my IDE to work with 386BSD by going to native mode, and resetting
ALL of the DOS partitions (implies backup/restore hard disk).

With this done, I restored my DOS partition, then my Minix partition,
set a third partition to A5 (386BSD), booted 386BSD, installed an
appropriate disklabel (finally!) and everything worked.

Fortunately I'd just bought a new 386 motherboard with a BIOS that
allowed me to set my IDE drives in native mode.

Hope this helps!

	Warren


  Warren Toomey VK1XWT, on the path to insanity
  No longer in the bowels of ADFA Comp Science.
   `Version 7 Job Control: just use ptrace(2).'