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Date:      Mon, 25 Mar 1996 23:30:53 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        jdiesel@iee.org
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Maxtor Hard Disk
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960325232959.236L-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199603250057.BAA04113@othello.dataware.de>

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On Mon, 25 Mar 1996, Jason Diesel wrote:

> I have just added a new maxtor hard disk (actually an oldish one) to 
> my freebsd system and at system boot time, I cannot recognise wdc. I 
> 
> Is there a problem with maxtor harddisks? Should I change my I/O card 
> to a newer one, it is one of those with serial, parallel, game, floppy and 
> HDD on one.

Did you set master/slave appropriately?  When adding a second disk to a 
single-disk system, you may have to change the flags on the drives to 
designate one as the master and the second the slave.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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