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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
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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
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