From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 21 13: 7: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE5881503B for ; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 13:07:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.152.128]) by mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990421200614.ULJT5596385.mta1-rme@wocker>; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 08:06:14 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: Doug White Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 08:04:22 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: onboard SCSI controller doesn't get probed Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <19990421092504.ROEY5596385.mta1-rme@wocker> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990421200614.ULJT5596385.mta1-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 21 Apr 99, at 12:13, Doug White wrote: > On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Dan Langille wrote: > > > I have a DEC pc XL590 which uses a PCI-based NCR 53C810 embedded SCSI > > controller. When I boot from DOS, I can see the two 500M drives as C > > and D. > > > > I'm trying to install 3.1-Release from CD. I use the visual > > configuration to remove conflicts. Novice Install. Then I get "No > > disks found". > > > At the main install menu, press and use the arrow keys to > look at the boot messages. You should see a probe for the ncr device. If > there are any errors, that should give you a hint. DOH! I'd forgotten about that. And so had several other people I've spoken to. Thanks. There are no probes to ncr0, which is what I understand the SCSI card to be. It probes and finds what I would expect it to find on the ISA bus. But no errors are found. Any ideas? -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/freebsd/ NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message