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So had a working system, you upgrded it and it was still working, then 
you put the drive in and then it all stopped working? It couldn't detect 
any discs?
Is the bios picking up the new disk. Has it been configured properly as 
a master / slave etc? What happens when you take out the new disk?

Daniel.


ODHIAMBO Washington wrote:

>I am running FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE-p7 i386 which I updated from 4.7
>and I seem to have hit a problem with fdisk via /stand/sysinstall:
>
>When I go to Configure->Fdisk, I get this error:
>
>"
>No disks found!  Please verify that your disk controller is being
>properly probed at boot time.  See the Hardware Guide on the  
>Documentation menu for clues on diagnosing this type of problem.
>"
>
>What am I missing or is this a known issue?
>
>I encountered this just today after I tried to add another disk
>
>
>Pointers welcome.
>
>-Wash
>
>  
>