Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 22:45:08 -0600 From: Nathan Ahlstrom <nrahlstr@winternet.com> To: "Victor M. Carranza G." <victor@ns.concyt.gob.gt>, FreeBSD Questions mailing list <questions@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Please, help... Message-ID: <19990401224508.A8326@winternet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904012022270.6307-100000@ns.concyt.gob.gt>; from Victor M. Carranza G. on Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 08:45:16PM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904012022270.6307-100000@ns.concyt.gob.gt>
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"Victor M. Carranza G." <victor@ns.concyt.gob.gt> wrote: > Hi, Folks! > > Some times it is HARD to be a FreeBSD evangelist as I am. I try to > convince everybody I know (and am mostly successful about that) to switch > to FreeBSD from their M$, SCO, Novell, etc. current platforms. Heck, I > really believe in this wonderful OS! But the hardest part of all this is > when people ask me: "where do you get support from?", and I tell them > "from the mailing lists". I do not feel comfortable when I say that... > 'cause many times I have looked for help in here, and had smashed my face > against a wall made of "cybernetic silence". Come on folks. If the answer > to a question is really obvious for you, it may be NOT so obvious for the > person asking. Even a "RTFM" answer can shed light to a user who is in > desperation trying to fix a problem! he will probably RTFM then and find > the answer!! > > By the way, I could not find an answer to my question below yet. I have > tried many things. I'm not a newbie, but I'm not a guru either. So please > help me with this one. You can purchase support from www.freebsdmall.com. > I am getting mad with this problem. I have been searching the mailing > list archives, but found no answer...it started when I switched to 3.0 > (3.1 has the same problem). I was using 2.2.6 before. Until now, my > "solution" was to put the IDE CD-ROM drive along with the hard drive on > the primary controller, but this time I *really* need to put something > on the secondary! You can either upgrade to the latest -stable and it will be fixed, or remove the line 'pci/ide_pci.c optional wd device-driver' from /sys/i386/conf/files.i386 (it is the last line) and recompile your kernel. I think that this problem (I hope) is documented somewhere. Good Luck, Nathan -- Nathan Ahlstrom FreeBSD: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ nrahlstr@winternet.com PGP Key ID: 0x67BC9D19 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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