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Date:      Sat, 23 Feb 2002 13:17:27 -0500
From:      "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net>
To:        "freebsd" <brain_damaged@florida-wireless.com>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: ata/100 controller
Message-ID:  <20020223181533.B2F9148452@wastegate.net>
In-Reply-To: <008501c1b885$dca66ca0$1aa8a8c0@mdd>

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On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 09:09:21 -0500, freebsd wrote:

> and the part about non ata66 complaint cable. I assumed that the timeouts
>were from the FreeBsd detecting these higher/faster hd and they were
>connected to a regular onboard hd controller.
>so I went a bought a maxtor utlra pci ata/100 controller. I connected all 3
>drives. removed them from the bios standard setup and rebooted. All 3 drives
>are found. System starts to boot then I run into a problem were it ask for
>me to manual  enter the root bootfile system.  I have no clue or idea what
>it is asking for ?

don't know about the errors, but the maxtor card generally changes were
your drives are at.

when I put my maxtor ata100 card in, my current ad0 drive became ad4

you have to change your fstab.

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doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net

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