Hi All,

After trying some things out, I found that the
diskette errors only show when the pcmcia card is in
its ISA slot.  So, this means that there is some sort
of conflict between the card and the floppy drive. 
However, I am not sure what could be doing this.  If
anyone could give me some info on this, that would be
great.

Thanks for the help.

J Silverman

--- JS <oghistorian@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Well, I got my SCM pcmcia card reader today and
> installed it physically without much of an issue. 
> However, when I started her up, I got some problems
> that showed up during the bios part of the boot. 
> The
> first issue was that something (probably the new
> hardware) was conflicting with a serial port.  I
> fixed
> that pretty easily by just disabling that serial
> port
> in the bios since I don't use it.
> 
> Then there was a second error message stating
> "Diskette Drive Controller Not Installed or A
> Error." 
> Also, later on in the bios messages, it said:
> 
> Diskette Drive A Type Mismatch
> Equipment Configuration Error
> 
> So I went back in the bios and played around with
> some
> of the settings.  However, the only thing that would
> get rid of the second part of the diskette error
> messages was to disable the floppy drive.  But, the
> first part of the error message would still appear
> and
> I wouldn't have a working floppy drive.
> 
> After working with the problems, I decided just to
> let
> it boot completely and see what NetBSD would say. 
> To
> my surprise, it recognized the pcmcia reader
> perfectly
> but it now doesn't mention anything about a floppy
> drive.
> 
> What do you all think could be causing this issue? 
> I
> really don't know how to work with the bios that
> much
> since I have been mostly using Macintoshes for my
> upgrade computers, and could really use some help
> with
> this.
> 
> Thank you all!
> 
> J Silverman
> --- JS <oghistorian@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I will be receiving my pcmcia card reader today
> and
> > would like to set it up to run under NetBSD.  It
> is
> > the SCM SwapBox PnP PC Card Reader SBI - D2P.  Is
> > there anything that has to be configured in the OS
> > when I install this card to get it working?
> > 
> > Thanks for the help!
> > 
> > J Silverman
> > 
> > 
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