From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 29 13:49:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA25034 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 13:49:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA24964 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 13:48:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA13220; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 13:48:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 13:48:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: smdavis@iquest.net cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Promise Ultra33 driver support In-Reply-To: <353FB8C2.3892@usa.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Steven M. Davis wrote: > I just put a 7 gig Ultra-Maxtor on a Promise Ultra33ide controller > in a new computer and > when I tried to install FreeBSD 2.2.6 it said it couldn't find my > Hard drive ...(I got to the page where it said install Novice system) > There is a note in the Manual about a Promise eide board not > supported... Some Promise boards were a real pain and some are well-behaved. Yours must not be well behaved. :( Check the boot mesages, especially for the wdc devices, and check that the controller and disk is found. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message