Date: Sat, 08 Jun 1996 09:29:20 +0100 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Rob Snow <rsnow@lgc.com> Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, "Timothy P. Sparks" <Timothy.Sparks@GDEsystems.COM>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Release Notes 2.1, Ref Hard Drives/Controllers Message-ID: <4435.834222560@palmer.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 07 Jun 1996 17:51:08 CDT." <Pine.SGI.3.93.960607174711.4450C-100000@dympna>
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Rob Snow wrote in message ID <Pine.SGI.3.93.960607174711.4450C-100000@dympna>: > 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
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