From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 20 06:15:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA15135 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 20 Jul 1996 06:15:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pcnet1.pcnet.com (meyers@pcnet1.pcnet.com [204.213.232.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA15130 for ; Sat, 20 Jul 1996 06:15:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by pcnet1.pcnet.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA25403; Sat, 20 Jul 96 09:11:26 EDT Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 09:11:25 -0400 (EDT) From: John Meyers To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Promise EIDE 4030Plus Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've recently tried to install FreeBSD from a Wallnut creek CD, as well as the latest boot image from your sites, and I have had a serious problem.. I have 2 large EIDE drives on the first port of a Promise EIDE 4030Plus caching controller which are used for DOS and Windows. I don't want to touch them so I put a smaller WD 440 meg drive jumpered as a single on the second EIDE port. (The controller offers 3, 2 EIDE ports, and 1 ATAPI comoatable IDE port). DOS needs a special driver that comes with the disk to recognise drives 3 and 4. I was hopeing FreeBSD wouldn't, but your install program isn't picking the 3rd drive up. The card came with the drivers for SCO and ATT unix, but I doubt that can do me any good.. Even when the kernel boots, it is unable to find wdc0, although it does find wd0 (and it's 2 drives).. Remember one thing, BIOS only support 2 drives here, but the controller has its own BIOS setup at boot and maintaines its own drive table. There is no hardware problem as dos sees the drive (w/the driver) but FreeBSD does not. BTW, the 2nd controller lives at the standard place - IRQ15. Ideas on how to get it to work? John