From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 12 05:44:43 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA02978 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 05:44:43 -0700 Received: from utbkp48.tbk.utwente.nl (clubber@utbkp48.tbk.utwente.nl [130.89.101.148]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA02963 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 05:44:32 -0700 Received: (from clubber@localhost) by utbkp48.tbk.utwente.nl (8.6.12/8.6.9) id OAA01589; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 14:44:21 +0200 Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 14:44:20 +0200 (MET DST) From: it IS the rabbit! To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Install: can't find harddisc Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Sir, I'm having trouble installing FreeBSD as the boot floppy doesn't even recognise my harddisc. The strange parts being: 1/ linux detects my harddisc fine 2/ If I type (after -c option) "attach wdc0" it spins my harddisc and reports the right options: wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): wd0: 240MB (491925 sectors, 937 cyls, 15 head, 35 S/T, 512 B/S attach returned status of 0x1 I copied this of a screen, maybe there's some typos in there 3/ My computer at home, who coincidentally has the same harddisc, next to the primary harddisc recognises the both fine. I think my problem is that I don't know where/how to find out the parameters like iomem, iosize etc. and which one to set in the first place. Actually I was planning on comparing FreeBSD with linux, so perhaps there's a linux command to supply the neccesary stats to me.. thank you for your time Marten van Wezel