From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 16 14:40:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA22614 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 14:40:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA22394 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 14:39:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA26826; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 09:09:26 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id JAA05166; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 09:09:26 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980217090925.09981@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 09:09:25 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: admin@jcrnet.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Can't find IDE controller (was: SORRY TO BOTHER YOU>) References: <34E8620F.4E9A@jcrnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <34E8620F.4E9A@jcrnet.com>; from A. S. Clark on Mon, Feb 16, 1998 at 08:58:07AM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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