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From: langles@mycroft.ECE.ORST.EDU (Scott Langley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.storage,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: 386BSD on a PCI Controller / E-IDE Drive?
Date: 28 Feb 1995 04:52:59 GMT
Organization: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Corvallis
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Message-ID: <3iua7b$79a@engr.orst.edu>
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Does anyone have any form of BSD Unix running on a PCI Bus machine using
an E-IDE hard disk of greater size than the traditional 528 MB limit?

I've been trying unsuccessfully to install either NetBSD 1.0 or FreeBSD 2.0
on my Micron P5-90 with Phoenix BIOS (12/21/94) on a Micronics Motherboard
with an integrated IDE controller.  I've made separate installation attempts
using a Conner CFA850A and a Western Digital AC2850.  After supposedly
installing the kernel and rebooting from the hard disk, the system locks up
with a 'read error'.

If anyone has a working system of this sort, could you please send me
the details on your setup?

Thanks,

Scott Langley
EE Grad Student
Oregon State University
langles@ece.orst.edu