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- From: jlu@cs.umr.edu (Jui-lin Lu)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Update: Again: 386bsd booting problem ..... (Kinda interesting)
- Keywords: IDE, 386BSD
- Message-ID: <5504@umriscc.isc.umr.edu>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 15:56:20 GMT
- Sender: news@umriscc.isc.umr.edu
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- Since I have OPTI chipset with AMI bios made for Magitronic, dated 08/30/92,
- and since I'm still waiting for the testing results from Jolitz, I
- kept fidlling around my computer to see if I can find some miracle.
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- Last night, after I low-level re-format (yes, read re-format) my hd,
- I tried to boot Tiny disk again. However, this time I forgot to
- insert Tiny disk into drive A. So, I got "DRIVER NOT READY ERROR",
- no big deal. I inserted Tiny disk and enter. Wow! Tiny disk booted
- without any error msg. And this is reproducible. But if I inserted
- disk first (in this case, I didn't get "DRIVER ... ERROR"), it hang
- right afetr "changing root device to fd0a". Well, now I'm kinda
- wonder if there is any conflict between my motherboard and IDE drive.
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- Now, is there anyone out there know where can I get some doc for
- my Western Digital's IDE drive (WD9C0344A)? It has 977 cylinders
- with 5 heads. I bought the whole computer system and did not get
- any doc for my HD. Thanks for your help!
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