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From: Justin Jackson <jjackson385@gmail.com>
To: ebo@sandien.com, Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Install CD hanging on "probing floppy"
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:58:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e0ce39581003221158s2186047x921534b59463c73@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <twig.1269275471.59617@swcp.com>

> the root of the problem is that ich5 (8086/24db) is one of
> intel's first attempts at a sata/ide controller, and it doesn't
> work very well.  there are ways for the sata controller to
> wedge the ide side of things, and vice versa.
>
> 9atom has a number of defenses against this.  you may
> be able to boot with it, but mixing sata and ide on ich5
> basically doesn't work.  the easy and cheep solution is
> to get a sata cdrom.

Erik,

That's really interesting...how do you keep up with all that hardware?

I'll give it a try with a sata cdrom. Thanks!


-Justin



  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-22 18:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-22  7:01 Justin Jackson
2010-03-22 10:02 ` Steve Simon
2010-03-22 11:10   ` Justin Jackson
2010-03-22 15:35     ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-22 16:31       ` EBo
2010-03-22 18:58         ` Justin Jackson [this message]
2010-03-22 19:04           ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-22 11:21   ` cinap_lenrek
2010-03-22 11:39     ` EBo
2010-03-22 14:22     ` David Leimbach
2010-03-22 13:48   ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-23 22:33   ` Adriano Verardo

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