From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Apr 25 16:22:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA19210 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 16:22:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from GndRsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA19205 Thu, 25 Apr 1996 16:22:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by GndRsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA08230; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 16:20:46 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199604252320.QAA08230@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Boot floppy problem with Intel Atlantis motherboard (Mac To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 16:20:46 -0700 (PDT) Cc: Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com, dshin@ponder.csci.unt.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from Doug White at "Apr 25, 96 01:23:54 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Wed, 24 Apr 1996, Brett Glass wrote: > > > > Use -c and turn off all the sio ports (especially sio3). > > > > Is this the S3 video chip vs. COM4: conflict? > > No, it's the Mach64 vs. COM4: conflict. :) No, it't the IBM design idiots 8514 vs COM4 scew over because all the world is going to become PS/2 compliant. (PS/2 compliant means thall shall decode 16 bits of I/O address for serial and video ports, independent of weither this is ISA, MCA or on the motherboard.) > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD