Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 23:34:57 +0000 From: jlc415@gmail.com To: "Garrett Cooper" <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't see ATA drives with new install Message-ID: <1fe953880703171634l2ea482c3x9d26b807bcf83df6@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <45FC7552.9040409@u.washington.edu> References: <1fe953880703170340l552b1fc1ge244469667a2bb3b@mail.gmail.com> <1fe953880703171553x68700a34gcb473e3d46d0c0fc@mail.gmail.com> <45FC7552.9040409@u.washington.edu>
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It's an Intel DG965WH; Core 2 Duo CPU. On 3/17/07, Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> wrote: > jlc415@gmail.com wrote: > > I've just installed 6.2/amd64 on a system with standard IDE as well as > > SATA; I've got three drives: an old linux IDE hard drive (that I can't > > modify), a CD/DVD drive on the IDE bus, and a new SATA drive where > > I've just installed/am installing FreeBSD. > > > > I can boot from any of the drives: the linux install doesn't have the > > right drivers so it's not usable, but the MB definitely sees the > > drive. I can boot from the FreeBSD boot CD, as well, and that's what I > > used to install onto the SATA drive. > > > > The trouble is that when I boot from the SATA drive I can't see either > > of the other two drives. /dev contains the entries for the main SATA > > drive, but nothing for anything else: no /dev/acd or /dev/cd; no other > > hard drives; nothing. Looked through dmesg but didn't see anything > > related to the cd drive, although I really don't know what I'm looking > > for. > > > > I wondered whether the stock kernel maybe just didn't include the > > right drivers, so added > > > > device atapicam > > device scbus > > device cd > > device pass > > > > to GENERIC, but I still can't see the dvd drive. > > > > What should I be looking for? Is there more robust documentation on > > dealing with ATA devices somewhere? > > > > Any help much appreciated. > > > > -mike > > Mike, > What's your motherboard maker? > -Garrett > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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