From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 8 15:10:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA25424 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 15:10:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA25407 for ; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 15:10:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA13363; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 15:09:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 15:09:49 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Bryan Batten cc: Questions for FreeBSD Subject: Re: Detecting 3rd IDE Drive In-Reply-To: <199712072341_MC2-2B1A-EE5@compuserve.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Bryan Batten wrote: > I recently bought a 2.1GB EIDE drive, which is too big for my BIOS to > autodetect. Now, it works just fine with Linux, but is totally invisible to > the FreeBSD 2.2.2 Installation Procedure. > > I would think that there would be enough intelligence in the installation > kernel to be able to ignore the BIOS and communicate directly to the drive > in question. It should. Hit at the main menu and scroll back through the boot messages. Make sure the second controller and the disk are found. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major