From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 2 2:46:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from adam.framatome.fr (adam.framatome.fr [192.44.46.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1DF615185 for ; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 02:46:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ubc@paris.framatome.fr) Received: from localhost (ubc@localhost) by adam.framatome.fr (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA18675; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 12:45:40 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 12:45:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Claude Buisson X-Sender: ubc@adam.framatome.fr To: "Victor M. Carranza G." Cc: FreeBSD Questions mailing list Subject: Re: Please, help... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a 3.1-RELEASE (straight off the CD) running with: 1 HD + 1 CD on the first IDE controller 2 HD on the second IDE controller and FreeBSD is on the secondary slave ! and a SMC EtherEZ ISA card (ed0 driver)... No problem. The only inconvenience switching from 2.2.8 to 3.1 is that I know need a floppy to boot. Perharps, someone knowledgeable could help you if the model of your MB and your BIOS settings were known.. Claude Buisson On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Victor M. Carranza G. 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. > > Thanks in advance. > > Regards, > > Victor > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 17:45:48 -0600 > From: Victor Carranza > To: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: "wdc1 not found at 0x170"... Does anybody have an answer?? > > Hi! > > 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! > > I have read a success story related to changing configuration for the > ed0 controller, but I do not even have this controller in my > custom-built kernel. > > Please, send replies to the mailing list, so other people can find an > answer, as I'm pretty sure this is a problem concerning a lot of FreeBSD > 3.x users, not just me :) > > Thanks in advance! > > Cheers, > > Victor Carranza > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message