On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 12:59 PM, Jukka Marin <mailto:jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
wrote:
>
>I'll check the BIOS settings tonight and try turning of "PnP OS" if
it is
>enabled (although I can't see why this would affect the IDE stuff).
>
>If I had another decent motherboard, I'd try swapping mb's, but I
don't
>and I'm not sure if it's wise to buy any more socket7 mb's, anyway..
>

Because PnP aware OS "YES"  means the OS (Win95=A8) will do all the
low
level hardware configuration and PnP aware OS "NO" means The BIOS
should do all the setup.

Why?  Because, irly PnP did not work and M$ was forced to include
hardware probe and configuration code so people would not blame M$
for their hardware woes.

If the BIOS does not configure the IDE stuff then the IDE is 
unconfigured because NetBSD has no way to configure the hardware.




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