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From: guenther@NeoSoft.com (Ed Guenther)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and IDE Drives
Date: 17 Aug 1994 17:56:29 GMT
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Thanks to all you generous people who responded with posts, email, and
yes, even by phone!
The problem with my IDE drive in an older machine and FreeBSD turned
out to be very close to many of the suggestions:
1. FreeBSD had no trouble reading my IDE drive and installed just
fine as it went.
2. My BIOS did not recognize drive type 47 (installed by the Conner
utility accompanying the drive. That utility relied on a
DOS driver to interpret the drive for MS DOS.
3. My PC Setup program turned out to have an *undocumented* switch
allowing me to "customize" the drive. My troubles were over
once I discovered that switch. (setup /c for what its worth).
When I re-setup my BIOS to the specifics of the drive, using the
setup switch above, FreeBSD booted just fine.
Thanks again,
Eb Guenther (I don't know why my computer keeps calling me Ed).