Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 16:44:44 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding IDE to SCSI Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970103161841.25343F-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199701031423.IAA00202@horton.iaces.com>
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On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Paul T. Root wrote: > > > So the second disk (SCSI sd0) should not have anything set as active? > > > > Yeah, I think so. That will cause the system to try to boot your IDE disk > > which will have booteasy on it. > > Ok, so how do I set the disk so that there is no active partition? I played > around with fdisk (and read the man page), but it insists on there being one. Just set a partition on the first disk with it. There can be only one :) > Last night I tried both OS-BS and Booteasy. OS-BS never saw the SCSI drive, > booteasy saw it and gave me the F5 option, but hitting F5 just gave me the > menu again. Now we're getting somewhere...this probably means that the geometry on the second disk is wrong. > > > I have this pseudo intelligent IDE controller from GSI. It says to not > > > have Shadowing on when you're configuring drives, which I would guess > > > putting booteasy or OS/BS on would qualify. > > > > Perhaps. You might try disabling it's onboard BIOS. What model of card > > is it? > > It's a GSI Model 18. There is no way to disable it's BIOS. Ugly.. :( > Yeah, I don't really want to do that. I'm starting to think that I'll > just pull the 1 Gig SCSI and put both on the 2.5 Gig IDE. I'm doing fine > with 800 Meg for FreeBSD, so if I gave it 1.2Gig and Win95 1.2Gig, I > should be gold. Win95 is currently packed into 300 Meg (I have a 100 Meg > too). Whatever works, I guess....That sounds like a plan though. > Then I can put the 1 Gig on the shelf for when I can really upgrade to > a pentium and a new SCSI disk. Actually, I'd rather get another SCSI > drive but the price of IDE is so cheap. That may be the better way to go since your IDE controller is putting up such a stink. > You can say that again. I think I figured out how it got that label. I tried > it as a primary IDE controller (obviously, it's the only one), and the manual > says that that isn't especially good. I can't say why. Good luck! Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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