Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 09:09:25 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: admin@jcrnet.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Can't find IDE controller (was: SORRY TO BOTHER YOU>) Message-ID: <19980217090925.09981@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <34E8620F.4E9A@jcrnet.com>; from A. S. Clark on Mon, Feb 16, 1998 at 08:58:07AM -0700 References: <34E8620F.4E9A@jcrnet.com>
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On Mon, 16 February 1998 at 8:58:07 -0700, A. S. Clark wrote: > I'm sure you get millions of dumbass tech support questions everyday, > but I am really interested in using freebsd, and I purchased the Walnut > Creek CD so I would like to make it work. No worries. You'll get more answers if you put in an appropriate subject line, though. > I am running the following hardware: > > Cyrix 686 200 mmx > 6 Gig IDE Maxtor Hard Drive > 96 MB RAM > IBM 100BT Ethernet Card over a T1 > 24x Generic CDROM, the Kernel finds it as Mitsumi I believe. > > The hard drive has two 2 gig partions (more or less) one running Windows > 95 and the other simply storage so it has about 2 gig free un > partitioned space. > > When I try to install (either by install.bat off cd or bootflop) the > kernel can't find wdc0 or wdc1. If I go into visual mode and remove the > CONF's It shows wdc0 and wdc1 with the correct I/0 but once I go into > the install it says "No Disk's found . . ."etc. > > Could this just mean it's incompatible with my HD? I hope I didn't leave > out any pertinent information, and I hope you have the time to help me, > if you don't i understand. This looks like an incompatibility with the controller board, not the disks. Possibly it has soemthing to do with mapping large IDE drives; do you have any BIOS parameters for disk mapping? What kind of motherboard is it? I'm assuming from the processor that it probably has an onboard IDE controller-correct? Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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