From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 3 12:43:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA20742 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 12:43:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA20603 for ; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 12:43:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA10967; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 12:43:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 12:43:19 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Monkey cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: compaq contura aero 4/33c In-Reply-To: <000701bd5eac$9ae16310$e8c00c0c@monkey> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Monkey wrote: > I can not get freebsd to recognize my pcmcia 3.5" floppy drive even > though that is how I put it on to start the install. I am a beginner > with freebsd and any information you have to help me out with a compaq > contura aero 4/33c would be helpful, but specifically how to get it to > recognize the floppy. Make sure the floppy drive is in on bootup. Also try setting flag 0x1 on the fdc device in the boot-time configuration. This forces the first disk to be a 1.44MB floppy drive even if the CMOS says it isn't there. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message