Re: Support for more machines
Tim Rightnour <[email protected]> Wed, 26 Apr 2006 14:00:25 -0700 (MST)
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On 26-Apr-2006 Jochen Kunz wrote: > It may be well possible that the machine is missing some bits of > hardware to use IDE. IIRC there is no IDE connector. Well.. that would certainly explain why they would allow an unusable configuration to exist. I beat my head against this particular wall for quite awhile. As for the NVRAM part.. the residual claims it is there, but when you try to bus_space_map it it fails. Again, it may simply be lying to us. (given the IDE thing, this box is definately not truly PReP compliant to the spec, but, it's good enough to work with some hacks obviously.) --- Tim Rightnour <[email protected]> NetBSD: Free multi-architecture OS http://www.netbsd.org/ Genecys: Open Source 3D MMORPG: http://www.genecys.org/