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From: Neal Westfall <nwestfal@Vorlon.odc.net>
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Subject: Re: EIDE controllers
To: gpalmer@cdrom.com (Gary Palmer)
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 04:26:46 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <22229.823136454@westhill.cdrom.com> from "Gary Palmer" at Jan 31, 96 05:00:54 pm
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> 
> BZZT
> 
> The Promise 2300+ won't even allow the kernel to be loaded, no matter
> what options you enable/disable :-( It fails during the LOADING of the
> kernel, and FreeBSD doesn't get a look in :-(
> 

I use this controller with FreeBSD no problem.  However, you MUST
disable the onboard bios on the controller via jumpers, or it will
behave exactly as you describe.

Neal Westfall