From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 7 10:56:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA06265 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 10:56:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA06244; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 10:56:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with ESMTP id SAA00851; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 18:42:50 +0100 (BST) To: David Alderman cc: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Which dual Pentium motherboard? Cyrix SMP? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 07 Jun 1996 10:20:10 EST." <26C84A7DC0@novell.persprog.com> Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 18:42:49 +0100 Message-ID: <848.834169369@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk David Alderman wrote in message ID <26C84A7DC0@novell.persprog.com>: > Moral of the story: EISA/PCI is fine as long as the floppy controller is > on the motherboard. Umm. You must have had a weird card. The Adaptec 1742 (for example) has onboard floppy, is an EISA card, and works under FreeBSD. As I understand it, the floppy has to appear at a certain location in the BIOS space for it to be seen, and I have yet to hear of a on-board BIOS specifically for floppy controllers! Of course, the fact it's sat on an EISA bus may make a difference, I'm not sure... So it's not a generic ``you can't use a floppy drive controlled from an EISA card'', it must have been something specific to the card you were using. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info