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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IDE Controller Problem Date: 20 Oct 1996 15:15:12 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <54dfm0$3gs@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5460pb$s9r@kirin.wwa.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E osprey@wwa.com (Lucas D. Adamski) wrote: > 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. Does it come with an own BIOS? If so, try disabling it. There are known incompatibilities with VL IDE controllers when the BIOS was enabled. Try replacing it by a `generic' IDE controller. The VL-nes won't gain you anything at all under FreeBSD. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)