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From: ywliu@beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw ()
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0R fails to find my HDs
Date: 1 Dec 1994 02:33:09 GMT
Organization: Computing Center, Academia Sinica
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Richard Tobin (richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk) wrote:
: In article <3bh42f$5ja@gate.sinica.edu.tw> ywliu@beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw () writes:
: Do you have some fancy caching controller?  If so, try disabling caching.
: Also try booting MSDOS first, then doing ctl-alt-del.  Or if that's what
: you're doing already, try booting BSD straight from power on, without
: booting anything else first.

No. I have an ordinary IDE controller. It works well under MS-DOS. I guess
it's what Jordan told me : its I/O address is set to another port. I'll
give it try to take a look.

Yen-Wei Liu