From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 25 16:55: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 051AC14E4D for ; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 16:54:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@caladan.tdx.co.uk) Received: from localhost (kpielorz@localhost) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA99839; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 00:54:33 GMT Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 00:54:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Karl Pielorz To: "A.K" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE controller? In-Reply-To: <36D5ED4E.A98B49C1@biosys.net> 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 On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, A.K wrote: > Hello! > > I found out that the problem is my secondary IDE controller. > wdc1 it is found at boot up and also my CD ROM is found but then when > the blue screen comes up it hangs. > When I disable wdc1 I get past the screen but I can not use my CD > because it is installed on the secondary IDE controller. So what can I > do? Hmmm... The CD is presumably primary on the secondary controller (if you follow!?) - how long have you left it on the "Probing devices" screen? - I seem to remember having to wait over 1 minute+ on an old 486 I used to have, just for it to detect the secondary IDE channel etc... -Kp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message