From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 16 21:05:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA20160 for current-outgoing; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 21:05:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from native.cis.ufl.edu (sycheng@native.cis.ufl.edu [128.227.224.21]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA20155 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 21:04:56 -0800 (PST) From: sycheng@cis.ufl.edu Received: by native.cis.ufl.edu (8.6.7/cis.ufl.edu) id AAA02713; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 00:04:47 -0500 Message-Id: <199602170504.AAA02713@native.cis.ufl.edu> Subject: Re: [HELP] Cannot boot To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 00:04:47 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <8794.824521739@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Feb 16, 96 05:48:59 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME7a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In the previous mail Jordan K. Hubbard wrote : > > > Sure. I've tried to disable LBA mode from BIOS, or Promise card, or both, > > but none worked. Besides, I need to use DOS/Windows sometime so I don't think > > I will disable LBA mode even it works. > > > > Thanks a lot. Any other good suggestion ? > > I think the only suggestion that will actually net you a working system > if those are your constraints is: > > "Get rid of that stinking promise controller!" > That's too bad. Ok, If Promise VLB EIDE controller is not good enough, Could you please recommend me a better one which is FreeBSD compatible ? Any info will be greatly appreciated. -- Cheng, Hsiao-Yang Graduate Student ___ . TEL: 3 5 2 - 3 3 Department of Computer Information Science / \ / 8 University of Florida, Gainesville | /^~~) (~~) )Hsiao--_ 8 E-mail: sycheng@cis.ufl.edu \ // ( (~~~ / ( Yang) 4 WWW : http://www.cis.ufl.edu/~sycheng ```` ` ~~~` ` / 9 <> WE GROW GREAT BY DREAMS. ALL BIG ARE DREAMERS \ / 1 ``