From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 10 22:49:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA09925 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 22:49:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from hil-img-1.compuserve.com (hil-img-1.compuserve.com [149.174.177.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA09912 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 22:49:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from BryanBatten@compuserve.com) Received: (from mailgate@localhost) by hil-img-1.compuserve.com (8.8.6/8.8.6/2.9) id BAA07820; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 01:49:16 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 01:26:06 -0500 From: Bryan Batten Subject: Re: Detecting 3rd IDE Drive To: Doug White Cc: Questions for FreeBSD Message-ID: <199712110126_MC2-2B92-21CB@compuserve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id WAA09916 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi Doug, you seem to by my personal mentor vis. FreeBSD here. Thanks for responding to my question. Anyway - On Mon, 8 Dec 1997 Doug White wrote: > On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Bryan Batten wrote: >> I recently bought a 2.1GB EIDE drive, which is too big for my BIOS to >> autodetect. Now, it works just fine with Linux, but is totally >> invisible to the FreeBSD 2.2.2 Installation Procedure. > >> I would think that there would be enough intelligence in the > > It should. Hit at the main menu and scroll back > through the boot messages. Make sure the second controller and the > disk are found. Now, I should be clear. I can boot FreeBSD. When I do, here are the results: wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq14 is isa wdc1 not found at 0x170 Linux sees both controllers without problems. So I know the hardware is OK - with the exception that my BIOS can't autodetect the third EIDE drive which I have installed on wdc1. The drives I have on wdc0 are both 1G. The drive on wdc1 is a 2.1G drive. I suspect I need yet a later version of FreeBSD than 2.2.2. True? Thanks again for your response.