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Subject: Re: EIDE 2300+ Promise
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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
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