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Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Packard Bell?
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> > If the machine has two IDE controllers, put the CDROM on one and the
> > hard drive on the other.
> 
> No, don't. You do have a CMD640b controller. Put the HD as master
> and the CDROM as slave on the primary channel.  Have a look at the
> FAQ 3.21 and/or the HARDWARE.TXT on your CDROM.

This really varies depending on whether or not he's running -current
or not.

Note that the fix is automatic in -current, but only for PCI based
controllers, since the chipset is not detected otherwise (at least
it wasn't).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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