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cc: Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com>
Subject: Re: Promise SATA TX4 Controller on FreeBSD-Current -- problems
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On Thursday 20 May 2004 05:29 pm, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> Would this problem be the system BIOS or could it possibly be the
> Promise TX4 board..... ?

It could be the board as it is going to hook into the BIOS and will try to 
pass commands for on-board drives to the system BIOS.  Perhaps it doesn't 
properly handle the pass-through case in vm86 mode for some reason.

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