Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.2 with 6.4 GB IDE disks?
To: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/07/1998 20:31:26
On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 02:54:49PM -0500, Todd Vierling wrote:
> Okay, I know this will sound stupid, but...
> 
> ...is the primary drive set to "slave present", and how new is the drive?
> I've run into two rare circumstances.

Both drives are quite new (less than a year).

> First, when the master drive is not set to "slave present", and a slave
> drive exists, it may work fine under DOS and even Win95, but may not under
> NetBSD.  I found this while setting up a friend's system.

No help...

> My biggest recommendation:  If the target system has two IDE busses, make
> both master drives on a different bus.  You'll even gain speed doing this.

No help here, either.  NetBSD doesn't see the 6.4 GB drive, period. :-(

  -jm