From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 15 04:10:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA21927 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 04:10:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mlduke.concentric.net (cnc143032.concentric.net [206.173.207.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA21922 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 04:10:29 -0700 (PDT) From: un_x@anchorage.net Received: from localhost (mlduke@localhost) by mlduke.concentric.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA04213 for ; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 18:10:56 -0800 (AKDT) X-Authentication-Warning: mlduke.concentric.net: mlduke owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 18:10:53 -0800 (AKDT) X-Sender: mlduke@mlduke.concentric.net Reply-To: un_x@anchorage.net To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: large ide drive Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk a while back, i was having trouble with a 4G ide drive, and have since found the problem. for some reason, my HD controller (cheap all-port [lpt/com/ide/floppy] card) didn't like either 1. an empty ide port inbetween drives. 2. or, a cdrom drive inbetween 2 HD's. i didn't have time to figure out which was the case. (slave/master stuff was double checked). -------------------------------------------------