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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.dfn.de!rrz.uni-koeln.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!news From: se@fileserv1.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: PCI: unable to boot/install Date: 2 Jan 1995 17:40:19 GMT Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany Lines: 55 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3e9dq3INN16ba@rs1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE> References: <ROOT.95Jan1191135@gardano.tiac.net> <3e94s4$m0s@darum.uni-mannheim.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: fileserv1.mi.uni-koeln.de In article <3e94s4$m0s@darum.uni-mannheim.de>, andrew@wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de (Andrew Wheadon) writes: |> In article <ROOT.95Jan1191135@gardano.tiac.net>, |> root <root@gardano.tiac.net> wrote: |> >I just bought a US Logic P5/60 (Pentium) system with a PCI/VESA/ISA |> >bus. |> >The IDE controller is marked "UN-1082VL", and the PCI video card has |> >an Avance Logic ALG3201 chip (a Hercules Stingray). |> >When I try to boot off the floppy, I get a kernel panic, with an |> >'unrecognized controller' (or something similar) message. If I need to |> >supply more info, please let me know. |> |> You fail to supply the OS-Name, so this is for "NetBSD-current (and |> possibly 1.0)": |> The only supported PCI-controllers are ones with an NCR- |> Chip 53C810 on it. |> You will have to use an ISA-IDE-Controller for your drives |> and you will have to replace your PCI-video with an ISA-VGA compatible |> card (like an et4000-svga or an s3-card) NO! The pci code in NetBSD is based on an early version of that in FreeBSD, and there is no reason a PCI VGA board shouldn't work !!! There is the DEC 21040 PCI Ethernet driver in FreeBSD, and it should port easy to NetBSD, if it isn't already in current. Since ISA devices often offer only very limited configuartion options, most will work in a PCI system, too, without the need for special drivers. But if you want to take advantage of the PCI plug'n'play features, then you need a special driver (eg. the NCR SCSI driver). There are "not supported" messages at boot time, if there is no driver for a particular PCI chip, but that DOESN'T mean it won't work. If the PCI version of a card emulates the ISA (or VLB) version, or the BIOS does all the setup, then there really is no need for special driver support (and the message is a bit misleading, I've got to admit). I'm using a PCI system with no single ISA card under FreeBSD-2.0, BTW ... Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser Internet: <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE> Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706010 Universitaet zu Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 Weyertal 80 50931 Koeln