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From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>
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Subject: Re: adding another drive, bios questions
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DAve wrote:
> 
> I am at my wits end here trying to add a second drive to my file
> server.
> 
> I have a gateway file server, P90 with  32mb ram. FreeBSD is
> installed and running just fine. The mother board has two IDE
> interfaces, one labled 'pri IDE' the other labled 'PCI IDE'.
> 
> Currently I have the sys drive as master and the CD as slave on the
> interface labled 'pri IDE'. I want to put two new drives on the box.
> Attempting to use the interface labled 'PCI IDE' gets me nowhere.
> 
> I've tried;
> 
> 1) LBA on/off
> 2) AUTO CONFIG on/off (manually set cyl, sec, etc)
> 3) new drives set as slave on cable first pos, master on cable end
> position, and both as slave. (leaving system disk only set as master
> on 'pri IDE' interface)
> 
> I have one other box which the bios never sees the drive yet FBSD
> finds it and boots just fine. However FBSD never finds a drive on
> this box.
> 
> I have made no changes to the kernel other than to
> add these lines as per LINT.
> 
> controller  wdc1  at isa? port "IO_WD2" bio irq 15
> disk   wd2    at wdc1 drive 0
> 
> Recompiled and installed, reboot, I get this message from dmesg
> "wdc1 not found at 0x170"
> 
> My bios has no place to tell me what IRQ or mem address the IDE
> interfaces reside at, or where I can change/add this info.
> 
> How can I tell FBSD where the drives are?
> 
> Any thoughts?

Check the BIOS if the second controller is enabled.

HTH
-Christoph Sold

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