Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 10:04:44 -0500 From: "Mark Johnston" <mark.johnston@home.com> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: 4.0-RELEASE installation: can't see my hard drive Message-ID: <003b01bfba91$13455b80$79646c18@burows1.mb.wave.home.com>
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I'm having trouble installing 4.0-RELEASE - I get through the bootup and
kernel setup, but the "Probing..." screen hangs for about 10-15 minutes.
The installation screen comes up after that, but when I try to start setup,
it tells me that no hard drives are found. The kernel options I have
enabled are:
port irq
ata0 0x1f0 14
ata1 0x170 15
fdc0 0x3f0 6
ed0 0x300 9
ppc0 7
sio0 0x3f8 4
sio1 0x2f8 3
atkbd0 1
sc0
npx0 0xf0 13
Everything else is disabled. I'm using a 10.1gb Western Digital IDE drive
on a fairly old system (P166, 32MB ram, crap motherboard), and I don't have
EZ-BIOS (the large drive BIOS support software, intended mainly for Windows)
installed. The HD is the primary master, and an ATAPI CD-ROM is the
secondary master. The debug console shows some errors about timeouts
waiting to send commands to ata0-master and read timeouts on ad0 - it also
says that the device has disappeared.
This system has run Win95 and Linux, and both found the hard drive without
any trouble - I've also booted the OpenBSD install floppy, which found the
HD OK. Where am I going wrong?
Thanks,
Mark
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