From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Oct 31 18:30:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA22682 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 18:30:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from mail.ntplx.net (mail.ntplx.net [204.213.176.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA22669 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 18:30:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stillman@ntplx.net) Received: from stillman.ntplx.net (p61-5.hftd.dialin.ntplx.com [204.213.188.184]) by mail.ntplx.net (8.8.7/NETPLEX) with SMTP id VAA25421 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 21:30:34 -0500 (EST) From: "Dan Alex Stillman" To: Subject: FreeBSD installation not detecting Quantum Ultra-ATA HD - the real message Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 21:28:28 -0500 Message-ID: <01bce66d$d675cf40$b8bcd5cc@stillman.ntplx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0047_01BCE643.ED9FC740" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0047_01BCE643.ED9FC740 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sorry about that last message, I hit send by accident before I was = finished. As I was saying: Hey everyone. I have a system with a Quantum Fireball ST 3.2 Gig = Ultra-ATA hard drive. I've been booting my system with the boot floppy I = made and have been reaching the configuration menu where I've disabled = all the SCSI/network cards I don't need so that there are no conflicts. = I've left enabled the regular IDE controller on wcd0, but at the = hardware probe between the configuration mode and the setup program, the = system can't find my hard drive. The IDE_CONF.EXE program also tells me = that I have a "Non-compatible or missing Hard Disk Controller!" = Ultra-ATA is completely backwards-compatible, so this is basically just = an ATA drive and should work fine with the built-in ATA support. So, any = ideas? - Dan Stillman ------=_NextPart_000_0047_01BCE643.ED9FC740 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Sorry about that last message, I hit = send by=20 accident before I was finished. As I was saying:

Hey everyone. I have a system with a = Quantum=20 Fireball ST 3.2 Gig Ultra-ATA hard drive. I've been booting my system = with the=20 boot floppy I made and have been reaching the configuration menu where = I've=20 disabled all the SCSI/network cards I don't need so that there are no = conflicts.=20 I've left enabled the regular IDE controller on wcd0, but at the = hardware probe=20 between the configuration mode and the setup program, the system can't = find my=20 hard drive. The IDE_CONF.EXE program also tells me that I have a=20 "Non-compatible or missing Hard Disk Controller!" Ultra-ATA is = completely backwards-compatible, so this is basically just an ATA drive = and=20 should work fine with the built-in ATA support. So, any = ideas?

- Dan = Stillman

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