From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 27 01:19:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA09534 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 01:19:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from othello.dataware.de (othello.dataware.de [194.77.19.26]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA09524 Wed, 27 Mar 1996 01:19:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from JASON (moebius.rct.de [194.77.17.4]) by othello.dataware.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA07636; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 10:13:33 +0100 Message-Id: <199603270913.KAA07636@othello.dataware.de> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Jason Diesel" To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, "Gary Palmer" Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 11:07:42 +0000 Subject: Re: Hard Disk, answers ... Reply-to: jdiesel@iee.org CC: jdiesel@iee.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.23) Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Doug, Gary, FreeBSD Team.... Got It! On these fancy muli-I/O cards (2xserial, 1xparallel, floppy, harddisk, game) there are a string of jumpers (usually J1 to J11) which control the behavior of the card. eg: J1 says activate the HD0, J2 says use the default IRQ14 to HD0, J3 says enable COM1, etc, etc... Well, obviously, under DOS it doesn't really matter what these are jumped to, DOS will take the defaults and use them, it must say to itself "You can only have a hard disk there, so I won't even look at what the user has!". So I went off and bought a new card ($12) (so I could have the instructions) and then changed the necessary jumpers, Hey Presto, suddenly all items were recognised. I think this should be documented in the FAQ, someone want me to write up some details? Something else I came accross, upon installing with the boot floppy: Error: C:0 H:1 S:0 Anyone seen this? I have not seen this documented anywhere, it means you should not run rawrite to create a boot floppy inside a DOS box of Winows 95. Something does not let rawrite complete, and so the complete image is not on the floppy. Once again, many thanks to you all. JAson *********************************************************** Please Note, my new e-mail address: jdiesel@iee.org *********************************************************** Jason Diesel ======================jdiesel@iee.org====================== http://www.dataware.de/~jason