I've got an old (1991 vintage) 486 with a vesa local bus card that has
IDE, serial, floppy, and a few other things on it.  Booting the 1.3.2
install disk, I get complaints about unknown pci devices (I'm assuming
that's a clash between PCI and VESA), but it identifies wdc0, wd0, fdc0,
fd0, etc. just fine.  I can go through most of the install, including
disklabel and newfs, but it runs into trouble when it starts copying over
the bootstrapping binaries.  I get errors like this:

wdc0(0): lost interrupt
	type: ata
	c_bcount: n
	c_skip: 8192

The "n" varies, but the rest is constant.

So, if VESA a totally unsupported configuration, or just a partially
unsupported thing?  Is that likely to be the problem here, or do I just
have a bad hard drive?

Thanks in advance.

Chris

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