Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 21:55:37 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> Cc: Michael Dorin <dorin@puma.chaski.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: please, please help me with my udma drive Message-ID: <19990418215537.B510@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990418154038.11384O-100000@cygnus.rush.net>; from Alfred Perlstein on Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 03:44:08PM -0500 References: <199904181931.OAA10126@puma.chaski.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.990418154038.11384O-100000@cygnus.rush.net>
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On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 03:44:08PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 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.
>
Er, it can't see the drive coz it can't find the controller. From
the boot messages above:
wdc0 not found at 0x1f0
As to why FreeBSD can't find wdc0 I don't know. Is the drive the
primary drive on the first IDE channel? Do you have any other OS
on the disk already? If so then perhaps you can get some more info
from there or check in the BIOS. Is the first IDE channel enabled?
> 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
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