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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA5241 ; Tue, 22 Dec 92 17:00:40 EST From: reink@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Reinier Kleipool) Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 15:53:22 GMT Subject: Re: [386bsd] IDE disktab/driver... Message-ID: <21250001@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com> Organization: HP-Sales Office-The Netherlands Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!hpscit.sc.hp.com!hplextra!hpcc05!hpbbn!hpuamsa!reink Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd References: <haley.724072583@husc11> Lines: 26 Hello, Youhave some stange problems, but the information you give is not enough to help you... >I just brought down 386bsd, and started to load it on my machine: > 386SX/33, 2 Meg ram, mono, and a Western Digital Caviar 280 IDE drive. >Here's the thing: I only get like 75 megs, and apparently that is >because of the bizarrre way the kernal deals with IDE drives, by >treating them as ESDI? Why you are getting only 75 megs is not clear to me. I have installed 386bsd on 120, 170 and 240MB IDE drives, and that works fine. Did you use the install program? Did you commanded to use the whole drive for unix? As for the ESDI thing. 386BSD does not treat a drive as ESDI or IDE or whatever. This just signifies that the HD controller is a 'standard' ISA controller. The 'software side' of the contraller (registers etc..) are the same for ST506, IDE and ESDI, so you can use the same driver for all those controller types. (only the SCSI driver uses a different controller, and therefore needs an other driver) This doesn't help you directly, but is is the best i can do with the info you gave me. Reinier Kleipool reink@hpuamsa.hp.hp.nl