From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 18 19: 8: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 748D114C9E for ; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 19:07:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA15167; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 11:35:17 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA42275; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 11:35:16 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990419113515.N40482@lemis.com> Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 11:35:15 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Michael Dorin Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Alfred Perlstein Subject: Re: please, please help me with my udma drive References: <199904181931.OAA10126@puma.chaski.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Alfred Perlstein on Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 03:44:08PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 18 April 1999 at 15:44:08 -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. It's in your own interest to report exactly, not just "something like that". > The bios displays this? or FreeBSD? I assume because of what you have below > that it's the bios displaying it. It would also be interested to know where your BIOS finds this drive. Is it master or slave, primary or secondary controller? What chipset does your motherboard have? >> 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. You almost certainly want LBA mode on. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message