From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 29 15:18:19 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 1FD7237B8D8 for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2000 15:18:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jondoe@datacruz.com) Received: from sophiel ([63.27.95.58]) by stargate.datacruz.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 release (PO203-101c) ID# 0-39834U2500L250S0) with SMTP id AAA11462; Sat, 29 Apr 2000 17:13:12 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000429173306.007b9310@datacruz.com> X-Sender: jondoe@datacruz.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 17:33:06 -0500 To: markh@lon.imag.net From: Jon Doe Subject: Re: ide hard drives Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 05:59 PM 4/29/00 -0400, you wrote >IDE support certainly has not been dropped from FreeBSD. SCSI may be the >obvious choice on server systems, but too many people have IDE hard drive >on their home PC for FreeBSD to get away with dropping support for IDE. > >When you say that it's not detecting your hard drive, are you not seeing >ad0 in the device listing when you boot? If you are, but it's just not >mounting, did you update your /etc/fstab file? What happens when you type > >mount /dev/ad0s1a / > >The changes in the fstab file are really the only thing I can think of. actually, i did a little bit more digging, and found out that 4.0 does not support the same hard disk controllers as before, so my motherboard is now absolute according to freebsd. i will have to install debian.. :/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message