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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: panic: EISA I/O error
Date: 11 Oct 1996 15:01:46 GMT
Organization: Coverform Ltd.
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In article <53cl12$8sb@crcnis3.unl.edu>,
obiwan@engrs.unl.edu (Marc Lombardo) writes:
> I'm using a 386sx unsure of the motherboard manufacturer, 1989 AMI bios
> (not translating bios), and a Seagate ST31276A hard drive... the HD came
> with a software overlay that allowed users with older bioses (like myself)
> to use the full 1275MB capacity of the drive. In the installation
> instructions it said that for "other operating systems" you needed to
> format the drive with "bios standard" format in order for other operating
> systems to work with the software overlay (seagate calls this a DDO,
> Dynamic Disk Overlay). I formatted the drive with bios standard format,
> but still got the panic!: EISA I/O error.
If you want to use the machine for FreeBSD only, you should take the
"dangerously dedicated" option at install time. That asside, try to
remove any of this translation software - it's bad news. FreeBSD should
be fine without it (except that the root partition must be seen by the
bios).
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....