From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 28 06:00:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA24814 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 06:00:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de (btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de [132.180.20.32]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA24746 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 05:59:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de (8.7.5/8.6.12) id OAA29569; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 14:54:58 GMT From: Werner Griessl Message-Id: <199608281454.OAA29569@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de> Subject: Re: are VLB floppy controlers supported by freebsd ? In-Reply-To: from Eric Berenguier at "Aug 28, 96 01:54:03 pm" To: Eric.Berenguier@sycomore.fr (Eric Berenguier) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 14:54:57 +0000 () Cc: questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > don't worry, it's my last mail on this list for today ;) > > one of my company freebsd boxes is a 486DX-66 with VLB MB, > and it had a floppy+HD+serial+parallel VLB controler, and floppy > reading caused crashes (i sent a mail here sometimes ago). > > this morning i went to the shop that sold me the machine and tried > 3 different VLB controllers and every time it didn't work. > I had to buy a ISA controller ! > > any idea / comment ? > > -- > Eric Berenguier > > SYCOMORE > 31, place des Corolles - 92098 PARIS LA DEFENSE > http://www.sycomore.fr > > > You can try to make a DOS-bootfloppy to configure your vlb-controller during dos-boot-time in config.sys and the "fbsdboot.exe" on it to boot through FreeBSD ( I use it directly in autoexec.bat). I do this to speedup my ide-disk in FreeBSD, not to avoid crashes but perharps this solves also your problem. Good luck, Werner