From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 16 17:34:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA22943 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 17:34:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA22797 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 17:33:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-162.laker.net [208.0.233.62]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id UAA17052; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 20:33:17 -0400 Message-Id: <199809170033.UAA17052@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , "jobaldwi@vt.edu" Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 20:31:42 -0400 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Hard disk problems and some questions... Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 16 Sep 1998 12:41:11 -0400 (EDT), John Baldwin wrote: >Could it be that my controller card only supports PIO mode 0 or >something? My BIOS reports it as using mode 4, and I thought that BSD wouldn't >rely on that anyway. That's the problem... Your VLB IDE controller doesn't support Ultra DMA-33. You can try to find a newer VLB that does, but I've never seen one, and VLB cards are hard to find new these days... I'd buy a new AMD-K6 chip on a TX based motherboard, and use the 486 only as a firewall. Or a DOS based serial console with logging. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message