From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 13 5: 2:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web705.mail.yahoo.com (web705.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 782E437B503 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 05:02:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 118 invoked by uid 60001); 13 Oct 2000 12:02:33 -0000 Message-ID: <20001013120233.117.qmail@web705.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.14.206.104] by web705.mail.yahoo.com; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 05:02:33 PDT Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 05:02:33 -0700 (PDT) From: bill fiore Subject: Re: fbsd2.2.1->fbsd4.0 are adaptec 1542 floppies supported? To: Andy Farkas Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I dont get as far in the boot up process to do a dmesg. I get into a looping error msg...(the oly way out is a re-boot). The msg is something like: (#md/2) is 513 (ssize is 512) """I think that this means that the o.s.'s starting block is past 512 ? """ and that I need to re-partition? I currently have 1st GB of HD as win98 and next partition is 3GB w/ fbsd 2.2.1 any ideas?....I have switched to using the fdc controller on the mother board. I will try it again...(in a little bit)...as soon as I fini with reading my email. thanx in advance $bill --- Andy Farkas wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, bill fiore wrote: > > > I am sorry if i did not elaborate on which > > controllers were enabled and when. > > > > With the 1542 fdc controller enabled and the > fdc > > on the motherboard DISABLED ...I get the > > direction bit and cmd 3 errors described > below. > > > > With the 1542 fdc controller DISABLED and the > fdc > > on the mother board ENABLED...I get NO fcd > error > > messages. > > > > Does it make sense?...are floppies on the > 1542 > > supported? > > Show the dmesg output for both scenarios. That > should elaborate :-) > > > ===== > > William F. Fiore Jr. ($bilfjr) <<<<< N.B. > new address > > 88 harris av > > cranston, R.I. 02910 USA > > 401-946-5703 USA EST (voice/vmail) > > 1-877-789-1992 USA (vmail/fax - toll free) > > dollarbilfjr@yahoo.com > > > www.geocities.com/dollarbilfjr/dollarbilfjr.html > > > -- > > :{ andyf@speednet.com.au > > Andy Farkas > System Administrator > Speednet Communications > http://www.speednet.com.au/ > > > ===== William F. Fiore Jr. ($bilfjr) <<<<< N.B. new address 88 harris av cranston, R.I. 02910 USA 401-946-5703 USA EST (voice/vmail) 1-877-789-1992 USA (vmail/fax - toll free) dollarbilfjr@yahoo.com www.geocities.com/dollarbilfjr/dollarbilfjr.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message