Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 19:46:11 -0700 From: kcollins <kcollins@proaxis.com> To: questions@freeBSD.org Subject: Installing 4.3 with Maxtor ATA 100 interface card Message-ID: <4.2.2.20010501193247.00b43dd0@pop3.norton.antivirus>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
I am not have very good luck installing version 4.3 on my computer with a Maxtor (made by Promise) ATA 100 interface card, version 2.01 build 27. FreeBSD loads but does not show up as a boot option on my boot hard drive. FreeBSD detects both hard drives and when I install off of the on board IDE port everything works fine. Unfortunately that rules out my use of the 60GB drive as the motherboard bios does not recognize drives larger then 30GB drive. I Have two hard drives, one being a new Maxtor 60GB 7200rpm drive IDE port 1 and two being a slower and older 7G ATA 33 hard drive connected to IDE port 2. I am trying to install FreeBSD on drive two. Last night the partition table was corrupted to the point I had to do a low level format. Drive two will be dedicated to FreeBSD My employer has decided I need to learn unix. Our computer person has switched some of our servers over to OpenBSD. I am the computer backup person and our computer guy recommend using FreeBSD as it has documentation. The mother board is a FIC KA6100 with a Celeron 300A processor and 320MB of ram. Bios is Award 4.51PG version 1.1eI. Any help is greatly appreciated Thanks Keith Collins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4.2.2.20010501193247.00b43dd0>