From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 19 20:55:41 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id UAA01798 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Jan 1995 20:55:41 -0800 Received: from wcarchive.cdrom.com (wcarchive.cdrom.com [192.216.191.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA01781 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 1995 20:55:31 -0800 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.223.46]) by wcarchive.cdrom.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA01945 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 1995 20:55:26 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA05339; Thu, 19 Jan 1995 20:55:22 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: time.cdrom.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: steve@cioeserv.cioe.com (Steve Ames) cc: freebsd-questions@wcarchive.cdrom.com Subject: Re: installing on SCSI (2.0R) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 18 Jan 95 15:23:29 GMT." <199501181523.PAA12902@cioeserv.cioe.com> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 20:55:21 -0800 Message-ID: <5338.790577721@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Simple - your Always controller is NOT compatible. > I offered to install FreeBSD on a friends computer. However I can't seem > to get the install floppy to recognize the drive. My first thought was > that we had an incompatible SCSI controller. Then I noticed that it wasn't > polling sd0 at all. When I boot with the -c option and use the ls command > there are no 'sd' devices listed at all. > > I'm quite clueless here. The drive is a conner 1.xx gig. The controller > card is an Always (yeah I know... its not on the list, but I was hoping > for compatiblity). > > I guess I'm a bit confused here. > > As a side note... where can I find out what the other boot options are > used for? > > -Steve