From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 29 13:42:47 1995 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA22985 for stable-outgoing; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 13:42:47 -0800 Received: from georgewk.slip.netcom.com (georgewk.slip.netcom.com [192.187.228.86]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA22956 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 13:42:37 -0800 Received: (from coredump@localhost) by georgewk.slip.netcom.com (8.7/8.6.12) id NAA00315; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 13:35:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 13:35:55 -0800 (PST) From: invalid opcode To: kshuff@fast.net cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation problems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I am running two hard drives slaved together off the primary port of the > controller card. One is a Maxtor 540m ide as master, and the other is a > Seagate 125m ide as slave. Also I am using a Sony IDE CD-Rom running on the > secondary port of the controller. The maxtor 540 is my DOS disk and the > Seagate 125 is formatted with dos and is empty at the moment. I would like > to install FreeBSD on the second hard drive. > > The problem I am running into is when I boot FreeBSD from the boot > floppy, it recognizes the maxtor 540 drive as wd0, but it does not find the > seagate 125 drive. I would like to allocate that drive for FreeBSD only. All > my BSD distributions are on the maxtor drive. BSD will boot and I get the > menu, but when I go to the partioner theirs only one drive available. > Same thing happens to me, i have a Maxtor 7345AT (345M) as drive 0, a Quantum 420M as drive 1, and an ATAPI cdrom on a seperate controller card. When I boot, it will only recognize drive 0. I see this is a trend when one has an extra ide-adapter. Any help would be appreciated. coredump@georgewk.slip.netcom.com