Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 11:42:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Philippe CASIDY <pcasidy@worldnet.fr> To: dan@jgl.reno.nv.us Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [HELP] Unrecognize IDE hard disk Message-ID: <199908170942.LAA01911@greatoak.home> In-Reply-To: <050801bee7ee$dee16a20$0200000a@home>
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On 16 Aug, Dan O'Connor wrote: > Hmmm...That's a strange one. > > Are you sure the jumpers on each drive are set properly for master and > slave? Yes they are. > You might also try removing the CDROM and sticking the 850MB drive on the > other IDE controller to see if it works there (make sure the jumpers are > correct for a single drive). In the old days (when Conner was still around), > there were some drives that just didn't get along well if you mixed > manufacturers on the same bus. The drive works fine under Win98. I was able to format, to copy some data on it. But unable to mount the drive as an msdos filesytem under 3.2-RELEASE. > If it works alone on the other controller, it's one of those "unfriendly" > drive situations. I have move the drive as a slave of the CDRom and it works fine with 3.2-RELEASE :-) > If it doesn't work, then there's something else amiss, and hopefully, > someone else out there has a better idea. Thanks for your idea. I am half happy with it now. I am happy it works but that means there cases that FreeBSD cannot deal with ;-( > Good luck, > > --Dan > > ** The thing I like most about Windows 98 is... > ** You can download FreeBSD with it! It recognizes more hardware ;-( Thanks you very much Dan, Phil. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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