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