From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 3 22:05:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id WAA03360 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 22:05:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id WAA03326 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 22:05:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id QAA02959 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 16:46:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA03810; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 16:44:44 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 16:44:44 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: "Paul T. Root" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding IDE to SCSI In-Reply-To: <199701031423.IAA00202@horton.iaces.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Paul T. Root wrote: > > > So the second disk (SCSI sd0) should not have anything set as active? > > > > Yeah, I think so. That will cause the system to try to boot your IDE disk > > which will have booteasy on it. > > Ok, so how do I set the disk so that there is no active partition? I played > around with fdisk (and read the man page), but it insists on there being one. Just set a partition on the first disk with it. There can be only one :) > Last night I tried both OS-BS and Booteasy. OS-BS never saw the SCSI drive, > booteasy saw it and gave me the F5 option, but hitting F5 just gave me the > menu again. Now we're getting somewhere...this probably means that the geometry on the second disk is wrong. > > > I have this pseudo intelligent IDE controller from GSI. It says to not > > > have Shadowing on when you're configuring drives, which I would guess > > > putting booteasy or OS/BS on would qualify. > > > > Perhaps. You might try disabling it's onboard BIOS. What model of card > > is it? > > It's a GSI Model 18. There is no way to disable it's BIOS. Ugly.. :( > Yeah, I don't really want to do that. I'm starting to think that I'll > just pull the 1 Gig SCSI and put both on the 2.5 Gig IDE. I'm doing fine > with 800 Meg for FreeBSD, so if I gave it 1.2Gig and Win95 1.2Gig, I > should be gold. Win95 is currently packed into 300 Meg (I have a 100 Meg > too). Whatever works, I guess....That sounds like a plan though. > Then I can put the 1 Gig on the shelf for when I can really upgrade to > a pentium and a new SCSI disk. Actually, I'd rather get another SCSI > drive but the price of IDE is so cheap. That may be the better way to go since your IDE controller is putting up such a stink. > You can say that again. I think I figured out how it got that label. I tried > it as a primary IDE controller (obviously, it's the only one), and the manual > says that that isn't especially good. I can't say why. Good luck! Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major