From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Feb 2 17:03:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA24739 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 17:03:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from Vorlon.odc.net (root@Vorlon.odc.net [206.250.32.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA24719 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 17:03:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from gport2.csci.csusb.edu ([139.182.42.2]) by Vorlon.odc.net (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id RAA07153 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 17:06:41 -0800 Received: by gport2.csci.csusb.edu with Microsoft Mail id <01BAF18F.A78F1760@gport2.csci.csusb.edu>; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 16:58:19 -0800 Message-ID: <01BAF18F.A78F1760@gport2.csci.csusb.edu> From: "Neal E. Westfall" To: "'hardware@freebsd.org'" Subject: FW: EIDE controllers Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 16:47:14 -0800 Encoding: 30 TEXT Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I am forwarding this message to the hardware list since it is where the original discussion began, and is still relevent. When I try to reply to dboyd@iquest.com the mail bounces back at me. ---------- From: Neal E. Westfall[SMTP:nwestfal@odc.net] Sent: Friday, February 02, 1996 2:18 PM To: 'Donald Boyd' Subject: RE: EIDE controllers Neal, I just tried to disable the BIOS on the Promise card and rebooted. The boot process stopped and asked for a boot diskette to be found. When you said you use this card, do you have two eide hard drives? Are you running a Dual Boot system? And Finally, if you are running a system like mine, do I have to reinitialize my boot hard drive? Thanks Don Boyd Do you get the FreeBSD boot prompt when you do this? My configuration is 2 EIDE drives on the primary port and a CDROM on the secondary. I have a multi-boot configuration. I use the alternate geometry translation in the motherboard bios since my drives have dos partitions on them. If you are installing FreeBSD as the only operating system, this shouldn't be necessary as long as your root partition is below 1024 cylinders. Neal