From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 2 14:23:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id OAA08146 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 14:23:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from amadeus.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (amadeus.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de [141.31.11.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id OAA08133 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 14:22:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (from helbig@localhost) by amadeus.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (8.7.3/8.7.1) id XAA00592; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 23:21:49 +0100 (MET) From: Wolfgang Helbig Message-Id: <199701022221.XAA00592@amadeus.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> Subject: Re: IDE Problem? To: n5ptn@bga.com (Michael Lay) Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 23:21:48 MET Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <2.2.16.19970102003538.268f3d60@bga.com>; from "Michael Lay" at Jan 2, 97 12:36 (midnight) X-Mailer: Elm [revision: 112.2] Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Is the note about IDE support being alpha quality apply only to the CDROM's > or all IDE devices? I have obtained the Walnut Creek 2.1.5 August 1996 > CDROM set and am having problems trying to install it. I am on an all IDE > system though. System is: > > ??? Motherboard w/PCI and VLB (UMC I think, but it doesn't say anywhere!) > 32MEG Ram > Conner 400Meg HD > Seagate ST-1090A HD (75Meg) > NEC (Oak) IDE CD-ROM > SMC Ultra/16 Ethernet combo card > 1.44M diskette > 1.2M diskette > SVGA Card w/1Meg Ram > Check out the IDE controller chip. I am suffering from an UMC board with the CDM 640B IDE controller. As long as I use only the primary channel, (master is a conner disk, slave is Mitsumi ATAPI FX100 CD-Rom) everything works fine. But I cannot use the secondary IDE-Channel, i. e. three or for IDE-Devices. So you might be able to install successfully by just using the primary IDE-Channell Have fun! Wolfgang Helbig