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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

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Nathan Ahlstrom                        FreeBSD: http://www.FreeBSD.org/
nrahlstr@winternet.com                 PGP Key ID: 0x67BC9D19


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