From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 18 13:31:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34CCB14CFB for ; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 13:31:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA10445; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 15:44:10 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 15:44:08 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Michael Dorin Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: please, please help me with my udma drive In-Reply-To: <199904181931.OAA10126@puma.chaski.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Michael Dorin wrote: > > Ok, a little more information. > > 1) Its not 19Gig, but 17Gig, here is what is shown on the screen at > boot time: D0 IBM-DJNA 371800 LBA 17206 Ultra DMA 4 or something like that. The bios displays this? or FreeBSD? I assume because of what you have below that it's the bios displaying it. > > 2) a little of the boot: > fdc0 at 0xdf0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 4 > fdc0: fifo... > wdc0 not found at 0x1f0 > blah blah > > then the install screen comes up, I select novice, and it says > NO DISK DRIVES FOUND Ok, taking a wild guess, you don't have the drive jumpered properly. The IDE bus is a bit odd, I've seen the BIOS detect a drive but FreeBSD unable to locate it because the jumpers were set incorrectly. please double check that you have the drive jumpered properly. If this still doesn't solve your problem I'm a bit at a loss. You may also want to try to turn off LBA mode in the bios if possible. Also, what version of FreeBSD are you trying to install? Versions older than about 6 months (i think) have trouble with very large IDE drives. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message