From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 22 22:06:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA07177 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:06:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line16.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA07170 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:06:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA07845; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:01:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:01:18 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Bryan Batten cc: Questions for FreeBSD Subject: Re: Detecting 3rd IDE Drive In-Reply-To: <199712170058_MC2-2C3D-2454@compuserve.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Bryan Batten wrote: > Hi Doug, > > Thanks for the response to my other BSD problem. On Mon, 15 Dec 1997 you > wrote: > > > > > > Linux sees both controllers without problems. So I know the hardware > > > is OK > > > - with the exception that my BIOS can't autodetect the third EIDE > > > drive > > > which I have installed on wdc1. The drives I have on wdc0 are both > > > 1G. The > > > drive on wdc1 is a 2.1G drive. > > > > What type of controller is the new disk connected to? > > Both controllers are on the motherboard. Wrt. the inability to autodetect, > regardless of which controller the 2.1G drive is connected to, the BIOS > fails to autodetect. *THAT* is your problem. FreeBSD will go *nowhere* if the BIOS can't see it!!! I suggest returning your disk. Something must be wrong with it. > Yes. The drive is being used under Linux with it connected to the second > controller, with file systems mounted on several logical partitions within > the extended partition on the drive. So Linux is necessarily handling all > three drives and both controllers correctly. From this, I conclude that I > do not have hardware problems - aside from the BIOS autodetect problem. Linux must have a super-agressive IDE controller probe to find something even the BIOS can't. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major