Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 10:58:39 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: souchu@firtech.lri.fr Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, bde@zeta.org.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: EIDE 2300+ Promise Message-ID: <199602131758.KAA23407@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199602131248.NAA05614@batman.lri.fr> from "souchu@firtech.lri.fr" at Feb 13, 96 01:48:37 pm
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[ ... EIDE 2300+ Promise ... ] > Anyway, any other system (Linux, OS2, DOS...) is able to boot with > this controller, why not FreeBSD ? Because the FreeBSD bootblocks don't understand LBA and because the controller does not report the fact of geometry translation to the non-BIOS interface (the WD interface reports the real as opposed to translated geometry -- this is a Promise bug). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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