Subject: RE: Multia won't boot with IDE drive plugged in
To: 'Charles Fultz' <fultz@cs.purdue.edu>
From: David Woyciesjes <DAW@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 05/11/2001 09:33:22
-> I just don't understand why I'm not getting any power.
-> The floppy works fine, the on-board ether works fine, SCSI 
-> works fine,
-> even my PCMCIA 3Com NIC works fine.  Just no power to the 
-> IDE controller.
-> 
-> Using your MULTIAIDE.fs boot image from 
-> http://pages.cthome.net/squeege/multia/
-> I get to the point where it wants to mount / on wd0, but since it's
-> not working, it can't mount it.  During bootup, there is a 5-10 sec
-> pause when wdc0 is being configured.  I'm guessing no power is the
-> source of the pause.
-> 
-> Why would upgrading my firmware cause power to no longer be sent to
-> the IDE controller?
-> 
-> Thanks,
-> Charles Fultz
-> fultz
-> 
	Hmmm. WHat sizes are the IDE drives you've tried? Can you hook up an
external SCSI (500MB is fine) drive to temporarily load NetBSD onto? Do
these llaptop IDE drives work in a laptop? Or something else? I'm this close
to blaming the drives, unless someone else has an idea...

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