Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 16:12:18 +1000 (EST) From: brian@albury.net.au (Brian Scott) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: hard disk controller not being found Message-ID: <199708110612.QAA03110@orac.albury.net.au>
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Hi, I'm having a strange problem with an install of FreeBSD on a new machine I have bought recently. The machine is basically a 6x86 machine with a 'VXpro' motherboard having PCI and ISA bus connections. The IDE interface is on the motherboard. To quote the (extemely limited) documentation that comes with it: "Onboard PCI bus master IDE interface with two connectors, supports four IDE devices in 2 channels and the PCI IDE controller, supports PIO mode 0 to mode 4 at maximum transfer rate of 16.67MB/s and bus master IDE DMA mode 2". I dont know if this gives anyone any clues about the interface. The floppy disk controller is also inbuilt on the motherboard and comes up fine. I had some basic fiddling with trying to config up a system (using another machine) trying to refer to the hard disk controller as being on pci? rather than isa?. No joy to be had there by the look of things. Is there any sort of definitive guide to doing strange things with a system config? I've done plenty of hacking them around in the past for various machines that I've put FreeBSD onto. I must admit that I couldn't find much information about the finer points of the config file when I went looking. To add insult to injury, Windoze 95 has no problems with it, and OS/2 warp 3 has no problems with it. There are a few BIOS settings to play with related to the IDE interface, however I'm in the dark a bit about what they do. Simple experimentation hasn't done me any good with them. As a side point, theres an ethernet card on the PCI bus which I haven't been able to convince win95 about the existance of to date. Is there any chance that that could be messing up the bus in some way if it is misbehaving? (I intend conducting some experiments with this). Thanks for any help, Brian Scott p.s. please CC any replies to bscott@ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au - I'm suspicious about how reliable my ISP is at present.
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