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From: Con Sultant <jkane@execpc.com>
Subject: Re: Promise EIDEMax Controller!
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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 16:57:46 GMT
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dbernard@oregontrail.net (David Bernard) wrote:
>Has anyone successfully installed FreeBSD with the Promise EIDE Max
>controller card?
>
>I attemped to boot from the boot floppy and since installing this card
>FreeBSD will not boot. Not even from the floppy!
{snip}
I do not have the Max card, but I do have a Promise IDE card. What I
found was that it booted from floppy, but wouild not regognize the hard
disk. I had to disable the onboard bios via a jumper setting to allow it
to use the system bios that FreeBSD requires. You might want to look
into this direction. Check out http://www.promise.com They have some
of their boards layouts online.
-Jeff