[Cc: trimmed down to tech-kern. But this should really have been in port-i386 ]

On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 02:31:57PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote:
> I posted 2 Messages for Installation onto a Laptop.
> 
> As I'm new to NetBSD but quite experienced in programming with other
> systems (I developed an new port of a multithreading OS to the ia32), I
> thought about developing a detection routine for the HD's of my Laptop
> (COMPAQ ARMADA 7750MT) to be used in NetBSD. 
> 
> I would appreciate, if anyone out there could give me a hint, where I
> can find the routines used in sysinstall/boot floppy for HD detection to
> hack the code into this place, or,  if already another person is
> developing such code, send me the address for contact, resp. where I
> can find the code -- I do not like to produce code without any sense, if
> others already did the same (coordination info required).
> 

What does this laptop have so special ? IDE disks should be detected
just fine. 
Could you try the last i386 snapshot
(ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/arch/i386/snapshots) ? The IDE driver
has got several serious changes since the 1.3 branch was cut.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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