From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 29 14: 4:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from stargate.datacruz.com (stargate.datacruz.com [208.198.194.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B519037B731 for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2000 14:04:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jondoe@datacruz.com) Received: from sophiel ([63.27.95.157]) by stargate.datacruz.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 release (PO203-101c) ID# 0-39834U2500L250S0) with SMTP id AAA18310 for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2000 15:59:07 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000429161902.007a2df0@datacruz.com> X-Sender: jondoe@datacruz.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 16:19:02 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Jon Doe Subject: ide hard drives Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i have a quantum fireball 1.6 gig ide hard drive. when upgrading from 3.4 to 4.0, the drive is changed from wd0 to ad0. well, thats all fine and dandy, but it wont initialize the drive or mounth filesystems to it. i know there is some new ide controller stuff in 4.0, but i dont know that much about it. even off of the boot floppies, it wont format or detect my hard drive. does this mean freebsd no longer supports those ide drives? do i have to switch to debian linux? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message