From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 8 01:35:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA10111 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 01:35:10 -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 BAA10052 for ; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 01:34:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with ESMTP id JAA04437; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 09:29:20 +0100 (BST) To: Rob Snow cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, "Timothy P. Sparks" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Release Notes 2.1, Ref Hard Drives/Controllers In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 07 Jun 1996 17:51:08 CDT." Date: Sat, 08 Jun 1996 09:29:20 +0100 Message-ID: <4435.834222560@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Rob Snow wrote in message ID : > Maybe I'm missing something here, do you mean a Promise 2300 on the > motherboard or PCI doesn't work (Didn't know there was either one of > them)? If so, that is a possibility, however if you mean the Promise 2300 > VLB doesn't work I'd beg to differ. (I will assume that reciept of this > message will do for validation) He means the 2300+ EIDE VLB controller, and it does NOT work as shipped, I have verified this myself. The cards on-board BIOS does something whacky and confuses our boot loader, causing boot to fail. You have to disable the on-board BIOS to get it to work, which if I remember right, turns it into an ordinary IDE card, which you could have got a lot cheaper. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info