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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!spasun.tpa.com.au!dmsaffron.adl.dms.CSIRO.AU!dmssyd.syd.dms.CSIRO.AU!its.csiro.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!etrog.citri.edu.au!jaguar.catt.citri.edu.au!acas From: acas@catt.citri.edu.au (Andrew Cassin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Promise EIDE controller with 1.0 Date: 30 May 1995 04:13:07 GMT Organization: Collaborative Information Technology Research Institute Lines: 20 Message-ID: <3qe60j$902@etrog.citri.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: jaguar.catt.citri.edu.au Summary: Anyone had experience with Promise EIDE boards? X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Hi, I have a promise EIDE controller (2300 series I think???) and am having trouble getting it to work under NetBSD 1.0 (6 patches applied). This controller is a VESA/ISA card with 2 IDE ports, 16550's and support for 2.88mb floppy drives. I have a 486 DX2/66 with 16mb ram, with the only other VESA slot being taken up by a Tseng ET4000w32i video card. I can boot off the floppy drive (using 1.0's KCAHA) without problems. I can mount the filesystems from the hard drive once at a single user shell. KCAHA also recognises the floppy controller and the serial ports. When trying to boot directly from the hard drive I get to the boot prompt and a '|' vertical bar appears and just hangs at this point. I figure there is some sort of conflict, but the default jumpered settings looked ok. Thanks for any help, Andrew Cassin email address: acas@catt.citri.edu.au