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Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 15:56:21 +0800
From: Chia-liang Kao <clkao@clkao.org>
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Subject: [FreeBSD-tech-jp 3015] toshiba portege DynaBook SS 3480
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Hi,

I got my new laptop from japan these days, which is a portege 3480
ds60p/1nmr. This model only ships in Japan, so guys at jp are proabably
more familiar with it.

I got some problem when trying to install FreeBSD on this new laptop.

o Normal floppy install wouldn't work. (it is a USB floppy disk) 
  Hanged after probing fdc0, I noticed that there are messages like: 
  direction bit not set, cmd 3 failed, etc. neither recent -current 
  nor PAO boots correctly to sysinstall.

o can't boot from the pcmcia CDROM, though there is bois option for boot 
  sequence.

o of course fbsdboot doesn't work for a long time, neither does invoking loader
  by fbsdboot.

o BIOS version 1.30

Is there any suggestions or other information needed on this?

Cheers,
CLK
