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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: wdc0 not found during bootup
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 15:09:16 -0800
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Jeff Aitken wrote:
> but FreeBSD cannot seem to find the IDE controller at boot time.  It
> complains that "wdc0 not found at 0x170" during the probe.

> way then the other, and had the same result both times.  FWIW, Windows 95
> reports that the IDE controller is working properly (duh!) and has an
> I/O address of 0x1f0 - 0x1f7.

It reports it at 0x1f0?  That might account for it not being found at
0x170. :-)  Have you tried adjusting FreeBSD's expectations to match
with the -c option at boot?

> pci0:3 CMD class=storage (no driver assigned)

That's correct.  It's just noting the presence of the card but noting
that there's no PCI-specific driver for it, which is correct.  You're
using the generic wdc driver.
-- 
						Jordan