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- From: reink@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Reinier Kleipool)
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 15:53:22 GMT
- Subject: Re: [386bsd] IDE disktab/driver...
- Message-ID: <21250001@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com>
- Organization: HP-Sales Office-The Netherlands
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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- References: <haley.724072583@husc11>
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- Hello, Youhave some stange problems, but the information you give
- is not enough to help you...
-
- >I just brought down 386bsd, and started to load it on my machine:
- > 386SX/33, 2 Meg ram, mono, and a Western Digital Caviar 280 IDE drive.
-
- >Here's the thing: I only get like 75 megs, and apparently that is
- >because of the bizarrre way the kernal deals with IDE drives, by
- >treating them as ESDI?
-
- Why you are getting only 75 megs is not clear to me. I have installed
- 386bsd on 120, 170 and 240MB IDE drives, and that works fine. Did you
- use the install program? Did you commanded to use the whole drive for unix?
- As for the ESDI thing. 386BSD does not treat a drive as ESDI or IDE or
- whatever. This just signifies that the HD controller is a 'standard' ISA
- controller. The 'software side' of the contraller (registers etc..) are
- the same for ST506, IDE and ESDI, so you can use the same driver for all
- those controller types. (only the SCSI driver uses a different controller,
- and therefore needs an other driver)
-
- This doesn't help you directly, but is is the best i can do with the
- info you gave me.
-
- Reinier Kleipool
- reink@hpuamsa.hp.hp.nl
-
-