Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 12:58:16 +0200 From: Ulf Magnusson <ulfma629@student.liu.se> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RE: Seagate HD not detected by FreeBSD Message-ID: <bac1dbcdfa.bcdfabac1d@liu.se>
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----- Original Message ----- From: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Date: Sunday, May 29, 2005 9:05 am Subject: RE: Seagate HD not detected by FreeBSD > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Ulf > Magnusson> Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 4:48 PM > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: Seagate HD not detected by FreeBSD > > > > > > I'm trying to add a 120 GiB Seagate Barracuda (ST3120022A) HD. I've > > attached it as the sole device on IDE cable 2, jumpering it as a > slave> device. > > Wrong. Each IDE cable can have 2 devices a master and a slave. So if > you > have 2 IDE controllers you can have master, slave, master, slave > for a > total > of 4 drives. > > It is not master on ide cable 1, slave on ide cable 2. > > >It is correctly detected by the BIOS as the Secondary Slave. > > Meaningless since BIOS routines do a lot of non-standard things and > arenot used for disk access in a protected mode OS. > > Ted That fixed it! Thanks, I learned something today. Wouldn't it be possible to have FreeBSD detect this (mis-)configuration and warn the user, or would that have to be done at the BIOS level? Oh, and with old BIOS:es that do not allow you to select which drive to boot from, if both the primary and the secondary master are bootable, will the primary master always be prefered? Ulf
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