Verily did Benjamin Sidle write:

> I have been trying to install NetBSD on my PC at home but am experiencing
> problems doing so. The installation program fails to detect my hard disk
> which is an ESDI disk and even after going through all the questions on the 
> install floppy ie telling it the type of disk and size etc it still fails.

mmm, ESDI

> I get the following messges on starting the install disk

> ie0: unknown AT&T board type code 15 - I guess this is refering to my 
> serial card which is a BOCA IO/AT card.

Hmm.. Might be, but if you have a (wd front-end?) ethernet card that
isn't configured as the INSTALL says, it's probably that.  I didn't want
to rejumper mine, so I just lived with the messages until I recompiled
a custom kernel to match it.

> npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff:error reporting broken; using emulator.

Cyrix or IBM "Blue Lightning" CPU?

> My hard disk controller is a SmartCache DPT contoller Model PM3011E/75
> with 4MB of cache mounted on a daughter board the irq is set to 14 and 
> the port to 0x1f0 as per instructions.

> The hard disk is a Maxtor XT-8760EH with the following physical parameters
> Cylinders	1632
> Sectors/Track	54
> Data Heads	15

> This is mapped to 744 cylinders, 62 heads and 28 sectors by the DPT
> controller.

hmm.. you might try turning off the cache on your controller card.

Also, I don't know if it would make a difference, but have you tried giving
NetBSD the `remapped' drive parameters?  I don't think the params are used
for anything but disktab(5), but it's a shot-in-the-dark.  (help?)

As for DPT, I have no idea (I didn't know they manufactured ESDI cards).
I'm running an Adaptec ESDI controller card, and love the thing.  No cache,
though.

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