Third IDE hard disk
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
des at des.no
Sat May 15 11:27:02 PDT 2004
Ceri Davies <ceri at submonkey.net> writes:
> If the controller on these boards doesn't detect a drive attached, then
> the BIOS for the controller doesn't get installed, so make sure that
> it's probing the disks correctly when the machine boots, otherwise any
> OS will be unable to find it.
Rubbish. FreeBSD does not need a working ATA BIOS to detect and use
an ATA controller.
DES
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