From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 17 00:21:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA00438 for current-outgoing; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 00:21:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA00432 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 00:21:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA20044; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 09:21:23 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA22465; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 09:21:23 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id JAA08144; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 09:10:06 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602170810.JAA08144@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: [HELP] Cannot boot To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 09:10:05 +0100 (MET) Cc: sycheng@cis.ufl.edu Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <10121.824534415@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Feb 16, 96 09:20:15 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > 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 ? > > Woog. He wants me to recommend an IDE controller.. Help me out guys, > I never buy IDE controllers! :-) Adaptec AHA1540, BusLogic Bt742, NCR 53c810, ... Ooops. They aren't IDE, you say? Right you are! The dumbest IDE ``controllers'' (2 74F245's, one GAL for the address decoder) will do it best. The idea of the computer industry to replace these sort of really simple IDE adapters by those ``smart guys'' they are so fond of these days, thus attempting to save the antique ST-506 disk interface into the 90's instead of banning it forever and using the well-established SCSI was one of their biggest mistakes within the last 3 years. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)