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From: NatureBoy <mephisto@nosferatu.cas.usf.edu>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD and the Promise 2300+ EIDE controller
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I had the same thing happen on a 486VLB box with the same controller and
an 850MB Maxtor, before and after moving to the slice code.  I ended
having to boot off a floppy with a kernel image on it using -rwd0.  Once
the kernel was in memory it could talk to the controller just fine and see
all the partitions.  Always had to boot off a floppy, and I was too lazy 
to see if it was a geometry problem.

Joseph D. Orthoefer