From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 4 20:52:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA15319 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 20:52:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA15311 for ; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 20:52:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-118.laker.net [208.0.233.18]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id XAA14969; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 23:52:30 -0500 Message-Id: <199811050452.XAA14969@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "fbsdqs" , "Spike Gronim" , "sporkl@ix.netcom.com" Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 23:51:04 -0500 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: SparQ drive Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 4 Nov 1998 21:23:32 -0500 (EST), Spike Gronim wrote: > I just got an internal IDE SparQ 1G drive. It is recognized as the >secondary master by my BIOS. I have the following in my kernel: > >controller wdc1 at isa? port "IO_WD2" bio irq 15 vector wdintr >disk wd2 at wdc1 drive 0 >disk wd3 at wdc1 drive 1 > > But dmesg simply reports: > >wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa > > There is a cartridge in the drive. How can I get this thing >detected by FreeBSD? If your BIOS reported it on the startup screen, like it does the rest of the BIOS detected devices, I would have expected it to fly. The trouble I ran into (when attempting to use one for DOS, Win3.1, Win95, OS/2 testing) was finding a BIOS that would detect it so I could boot off it. I had a clone moboard based on the AMD K5 and it wouldn't detect it, but a clone (taiwan) moboard with the 200 MHz Pentium MMX worked fine. Still, I had problems with OS/2 and WinNT because they knew it was removable media and they didn't like that being a boot device... BTW, I just read today that SyQuest filed chapter 11... I hope they recover. I like their drives MUCH better than Iomega... Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message