From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 5 14:52:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA00273 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 14:52:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from obie.softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA00264 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 14:52:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@obie.softweyr.com) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA01734 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 15:51:56 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes) From: Wes Peters Message-Id: <199808052151.PAA01734@obie.softweyr.com> Subject: Re: Install *actually* friendly In-Reply-To: from "Michael C. Vergallen" at "Aug 5, 98 06:51:55 am" To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 15:51:55 -0600 (MDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Vince Vielhaber wrote: > > PC's are being shipped that way! The particular machine that happened to > > me on was an Intel, not a machine built by Joe Blow's 'Puter Parts. I'd What EVER made you think a computer made by Intel is better than one made by "Joe Blow's Computer Parts"? > > already installed FreeBSD on a number of systems and it's my preferred > > Unix so I was a bit more persistant than the typical user. Right now that > > machine has the hard disk and CD on wdc0 and FreeBSD *still* doesn't even > > see wdc1 (even tho there's nothing on it). The controllers are built onto > > the motherboard. You don't understand: if you don't have a "master" device plugged into that "IDE2" connector on your motherboard, YOU DON"T HAVE A SECOND IDE CONTROLLER! The "controller" on IDE is ON THE DRIVE, that's what "Integrated Drive Electronics" means. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message