From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jun 28 16: 3: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.drexel.edu (mail.drexel.edu [129.25.3.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3FB137B8C9 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 16:02:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lint@drexel.edu) Received: from n1-10-245.dhcp.drexel.edu (n1-10-245.dhcp.drexel.edu [129.25.10.245]) by mail.drexel.edu (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.4.0.2000.05.17.04.13.p6) with ESMTP id <0FWW00KIW00WL5@mail.drexel.edu> for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 19:02:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 19:02:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Adam Staudt Subject: installing woes: 4.0-R on dell precision workstation 620 X-Sender: lint@lyra To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org hello... was referred here from freebsd-questions the problem i'm seeing is this: booting with the 4.0-R kern and mfsroot disks, ahc0 is detected (Adaptec AIC-7899 scsi controller), however, the hard disk attached to it (da0) is not... no da* messages on bootup at all. when the installer launches, an attempt to setup partitions, etc.. gets a complaint about no disks found (naturally)... my experience up to this point is with IDE, so it's possible that i'm missing something silly here... i can confirm that the hardware itself is working ok, since NT booted and operated fine (not anymore since i did a low-level format...) any assistance you can offer is greatly appreciated. thank you.. adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message