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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: NEC 6235CD Notebook
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On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Paul F. Werkowski wrote:

> I am trying install FreeBSD on subject hardware and
> having a bit of a problem getting going. I can boot
> the 2.1.6 boot floppy and all seems well until I
> get into the partition editor -- well not really all
> well as there seems to be some "wd3" errors on the
> F2 screen. The partition editor doesn't seem to get
> the bios geometry right (supposedly 2796/16/63)
> although it lets me change it. Then when I use C
> to create a partition a menu pops up wanting the
> partition type and the box is totally dead at that point.

What is wd3?  A misdetected CDROM?  Hit <scroll lock> at the main menu and
see what's reported for the wdc/wd probes.

wd0 should be the system hard drive.

> Is this NEC a no-win? The IDE controller is listed as
> OPTI Dual PCI.

Sounds like the OPTI has a different idea of IDE compatibility than the
rest of the world.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major