Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 16:10:10 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't see ATA drives with new install Message-ID: <45FC7552.9040409@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <1fe953880703171553x68700a34gcb473e3d46d0c0fc@mail.gmail.com> References: <1fe953880703170340l552b1fc1ge244469667a2bb3b@mail.gmail.com> <1fe953880703171553x68700a34gcb473e3d46d0c0fc@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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