From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 23 06:21:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA13142 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 06:21:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gateway.pnu.com (gateway.upj.com [146.240.240.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA13137 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 06:21:04 -0700 (PDT) From: ALHACK@am.pnu.com Received: by gateway.pnu.com id AA05789 (InterLock SMTP Gateway 3.0 for questions@FreeBSD.org); Tue, 23 Jul 1996 09:20:48 -0400 Received: by gateway.pnu.com (Internal Mail Agent-1); Tue, 23 Jul 1996 09:20:48 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 09:11:25 -0400 Message-Id: <1f4d1240@am.pnu.com> Subject: Re[2]: FreeBSD disk drivers To: Nicolas Souchu Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: cc:Mail note part Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Nicolas, Thank you for your suggestion that I use "fbsdboot.exe" from DOS. Once FreeBSD has booted, I can access all areas of my 1GB drive. I left the Promise BIOS operational since my motherboard's BIOS does not support drives of this size. Art ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: FreeBSD disk drivers Author: Nicolas Souchu at INTERNET Date: 07/18/96 10:46 AM ALHACK@am.pnu.com writes: > > The controller is a Promise EIDE2300 PLUS VESA Local Bus with on board BIOS > that takes over the hard disk fuctions from the mother board BIOS. The disk > drive is a Western Digital Caviar AC21000. This combination works well with > DOS and Windows 3.1 . The Promise BIOS is buggy. Either disable it with jumpers (you'll have some problems with your 1Gb disk if your motherboard's BIOS do not support it) or use fbsdboot.exe from DOS. This exec is in /sys/i386/boot/dosboot. nicolas -- Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr Laboratoire PRiSM - Versailles, FRANCE