From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 29 10:58:22 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF4E116A41C for ; Sun, 29 May 2005 10:58:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ulfma629@student.liu.se) Received: from lemuria.unit.liu.se (lemuria.unit.liu.se [130.236.230.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7250C43D1F for ; Sun, 29 May 2005 10:58:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ulfma629@student.liu.se) Received: by lemuria.unit.liu.se (Postfix, from userid 104) id A92B7F42E; Sun, 29 May 2005 12:58:20 +0200 (MEST) Received: from liu.se (avalon.unit.liu.se [130.236.230.138]) by lemuria.unit.liu.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1251FF42D; Sun, 29 May 2005 12:58:16 +0200 (MEST) Received: from [81.94.82.239] by qom.unit.liu.se (mshttpd); Sun, 29 May 2005 12:58:16 +0200 From: Ulf Magnusson To: Ted Mittelstaedt Message-ID: Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 12:58:16 +0200 X-Mailer: iPlanet Messenger Express 5.2 HotFix 2.05 (built Mar 3 2005) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Language: en X-Accept-Language: en Priority: normal Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2-liu_20050119_1740 (2004-11-16) on themis.unit.liu.se X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS, LIU_FROM_MATCHES_LIUSTUDENT autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2-liu_20050119_1740 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RE: Seagate HD not detected by FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 10:58:22 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: Ted Mittelstaedt 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