Subject: Re: NetBSD INSTALL kernel and Multia IDE controller [wdc0]
To: None <port-alpha@netbsd.org>
From: Graham Allan <allan@physics.umn.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 04/11/2007 09:54:40
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 11:08:16PM -0700, Matt Thomas wrote:
> 
> >I seem to be having a bizarre problem with my Multia. Namely, on the
> >NetBSD INSTALL kernel, it does not recognise the wdc0 IDE controller.
> >As I would like to place the system root on a 128Mb CompactFlash card
> >and boot off floppy, I need IDE. However, it seems to not be
> >recognised whatsoever. It finds com0, com1 and lpt1 all fine, however.
> 
> I don't think the Multia had IDE.  IIRC, it was SCSI.

Multia had laptop-style IDE as well as SCSI. Not recognised by the SRM
console, you could only boot from it using ARC for NT (or linux?).

We still have some hardware manuals...

http://www.physics.umn.edu/support/manuals/digital/udb-man.pdf

Graham