Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 18:08:13 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> Cc: Michael Dorin <dorin@puma.chaski.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: please, please help me with my udma drive Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990418180341.11384Z-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <19990418215537.B510@marder-1>
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On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Mark Ovens wrote: > On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 03:44:08PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Michael Dorin wrote: > > > > > 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? Listen to me, please DOUBLE and TRIPLE check that the drive is jumpered properly, i don't care what your bios says nor what you think freebsd sees. FreeBSD tends not to see the harddrive controller if you have the drives jumpered incorrectly. It's happened to me on multiple machines the bios can probe and detect the harddrives but FreeBSD misses the controller because it's jumpered wrong and the controller is confused. It's a fact, try that first, then tell us what brand of IDE controller you have, perhaps it's not supported, although i doubt that. Also, please report what version of freebsd you are using. thanks, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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