From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 28 12:30:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA23375 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 May 1996 12:30:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from owlnet.rice.edu (owlnet.rice.edu [128.42.49.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA23370 for ; Tue, 28 May 1996 12:30:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from glad.owlnet.rice.edu (glad.owlnet.rice.edu [128.42.55.50]) by owlnet.rice.edu (8.7.1/8.7.1) with ESMTP id OAA12671; Tue, 28 May 1996 14:30:34 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from lromero@localhost) by glad.owlnet.rice.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA05921; Tue, 28 May 1996 14:30:33 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 14:30:33 -0500 (CDT) From: Luis Romero To: questions@freeBSD.org cc: Luis Arnoldo Romero Subject: installing Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm trying to install FreeBSD from the Walnut Creek CD-Rom but I haven't had any success. I have a 75MHz Pentium with two IDE controllers. The first IDE controller has two 1 Gb hard drives connected to it. The second controller has an IDE CD-Rom. During the probing stage, it seems to recognize the two hard drives on the first controller and also the CD-ROM but somehow it is looking for a third hard drive which doesn't exist and it just hangs there. Here are some messages that I get: ... wd2 size unknown, using BIOS value wdc1 unit 1 (atapi): NEC CD-ROM DRIVE: 272/4.15 wcd0 689Kb/sec, 256 Kb cache, ... wcd0 medium type unknown, unlocked ... (after some more messages the screen goes blank but I can read some debugging messages by pressing PrintScreen) DEBUG: IOCTL (3, TIOCCONS, NULL) = 0 (success) wd2: can't handle 64 heads from partition table (truncating to 16) wd2 wdunwedge failed wd2 status 70 error ff ... (The same messages keep repeating periodically...) Is there a fix for this? thanks, Luis