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From: osprey@wwa.com (Lucas D. Adamski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: IDE Controller Problem
Date: 17 Oct 1996 19:18:03 GMT
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Hello all,
I've been trying to get the FreeBSD boot disk (ver 2.1.5) to recognize
my VL IDE controller. As far as I can tell its set to the default address
and interrupt (14), and DOS, Linux, Win95, etc had no trouble detecting
it. I've tried changing the CMOS settings around, but to no avail. The
VL controller is 'made' by Silicon Valley, the two hard drives that are
attached to it are a Seagate 362 meg (master) and a Conner 545 meg
(slave), and the MB is a 486 SLC2/66 IBM Lightning. The only other thing
I can think of is that the Linux screwed around with the boot sector on
the master drive, and after I uninstalled it I've been unable to boot off
it in DOS (repartitioning, reformating, Norton Utilities have been unable
to fix it), but I don't see how that would keep FreeBSD from recognising
the controller. Any help would be greatly appreciated, as I really don't
want to have to go back to Linux.
//Lucas.
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