From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 27 10:34:17 1994 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id KAA19918 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Dec 1994 10:34:17 -0800 Received: from relay1.UU.NET (relay1.UU.NET [192.48.96.5]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA19912 for ; Tue, 27 Dec 1994 18:34:15 GMT Received: from firewall.meaddata.com.meaddata.com by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP id QQxwcw04878; Tue, 27 Dec 1994 13:33:30 -0500 Received: from meaddata.com ([138.12.96.71]) by firewall.meaddata.com.meaddata.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06793; Tue, 27 Dec 94 13:34:54 EST Received: from atom.meaddata.com by meaddata.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA12912; Tue, 27 Dec 94 13:33:30 EST Received: by atom.meaddata.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA18789; Tue, 27 Dec 94 13:33:26 EST Date: Tue, 27 Dec 94 13:33:26 EST From: robertg@meaddata.com (Robert Gerdardy) Message-Id: <9412271833.AA18789@atom.meaddata.com> To: robertg@meaddata.com, ats@g386bsd.first.gmd.de Subject: Re: Loop...Loop...Loop Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > What type of floppy controller and what machine is this ? Can you tell > us more about that ? The machine is a Gateway 2000 DX2 66V, the V means VESA local bus. I think it has an IDE controller on the system board, which may control the floppies, but I am not using it for the hard disk. It has an Ultrastor 14f SCSI controller and 1.2 GB SCSI drive and a SCSI CDROM. It has the 2 serial/ 2 parallel port card it came with, and an ATI graphics ultra pro video card. I put in an ethernet card, its an Intel, I think it's called an EtherExpress 16 or something like that. It's the card that came with the Windows for workgroups 3.1 upgrade kit. That card is software configuable, but was configured to not conflict before. I think it stores the config in EEPROM, so it should subsequently come up in the same config when powered on, but I am not sure. > Do you even see a spinning cursor after the boot prompt and a testing > memory image ? I see two steps of a spin. | then /