Hi All,

After moving some cards around and removing one, I
found out that the PCMCIA card was actually
conflicting with the dead scsi card I had in the
machine.  Once I removed the scsi card, everything
went back to normal, so I guess something was still
working on the card for it to do that.

However, I hope the replacment card for the dead one
won't conflict with anything.  If anyone has any ideas
as to why it did this, please let me know.

Thanks,
J Silverman
--- JS <oghistorian@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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