Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 18:42:49 +0100 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: David Alderman <dave@persprog.com> Cc: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which dual Pentium motherboard? Cyrix SMP? Message-ID: <848.834169369@palmer.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 07 Jun 1996 10:20:10 EST." <26C84A7DC0@novell.persprog.com>
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David Alderman wrote in message ID <26C84A7DC0@novell.persprog.com>: > Moral of the story: EISA/PCI is fine as long as the floppy controller is > on the motherboard. Umm. You must have had a weird card. The Adaptec 1742 (for example) has onboard floppy, is an EISA card, and works under FreeBSD. As I understand it, the floppy has to appear at a certain location in the BIOS space for it to be seen, and I have yet to hear of a on-board BIOS specifically for floppy controllers! Of course, the fact it's sat on an EISA bus may make a difference, I'm not sure... So it's not a generic ``you can't use a floppy drive controlled from an EISA card'', it must have been something specific to the card you were using. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
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