From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 23 17:36:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from otonabee.pixelhammer.com (sense-nbd95-64.oz.net [216.39.165.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4671937BA4D for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 17:36:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dave@pixelhammer.com) Received: from redbird.pixelhammer.com (redbird.pixelhammer.com [192.168.0.2]) by otonabee.pixelhammer.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA05603; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 22:28:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by redbird.pixelhammer.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 23 Jul 2000 17:49:44 +4100 Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 17:49:44 -0700 From: DAve To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: seafug@dub.net Subject: Re: (off Topic)Two drives on primary controller Message-ID: <20000723174944.A104@pixelhammer.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, seafug@dub.net References: <20000722220645.A1690@pixelhammer.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.2i In-Reply-To: ; from otterr@telocity.com on Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 05:40:43PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Seafug and FreeBSD-questions, Well, fantastic! I have TWO! hdd on my new nat box(Dell). Funny thing but I stumbled onto the solution completely by accident. In my numerous attempts changing jumpers, cable order, etc, I had rebooted without connecting the drives. When I went to the bios to change the settings from 'auto' to 'user defined', they were empty. I entered the proper settings for cyl,sec,hd and rebooted. TaDa! both drives were found. I just tried it again with a different slave drive and the same thing happened. Evidently 'auto' doesn't mean 'everytime the bios starts', just when new hardware is installed. If the hardware is changed, the bios doesn't notice. I had not read this anywhere, grrrrrrrr........ FBSD is installing now and I'll soon move my /etc files over to this new box and get it ready for mail/dns/firewall duty. Now, for the Fileserver (Gateway), John U. came over and quickly identified the bios as too old to recognize the drives. I have an abit board to replace it (I need the giant Gateway case for all the wunnerful open bays) but no ATX power supply, which I will round up soon. Many thanks John for the quick tutorial on DMA, large drives, bus speeds, etc. I know what I have and how to get to where I want to be. I'm changing the mb now as FBSD installs on the Dell. Thanks to everyone, the fbsd-questions list has sent some good info including a short story on how IDE works, I'm keeping that e-mail handy. DAve. -- "On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the Dawn of Victory, sat down to wait, and waiting -- died" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message