From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 25 23:30:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA16920 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 23:30:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts9-line4.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.85]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA16914 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 23:30:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA00377; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 23:30:54 -0800 Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 23:30:53 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: jdiesel@iee.org cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Maxtor Hard Disk In-Reply-To: <199603250057.BAA04113@othello.dataware.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 25 Mar 1996, Jason Diesel wrote: > I have just added a new maxtor hard disk (actually an oldish one) to > my freebsd system and at system boot time, I cannot recognise wdc. I > > Is there a problem with maxtor harddisks? Should I change my I/O card > to a newer one, it is one of those with serial, parallel, game, floppy and > HDD on one. Did you set master/slave appropriately? When adding a second disk to a single-disk system, you may have to change the flags on the drives to designate one as the master and the second the slave. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major