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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!interlan!timj From: timj@freebsd.ncm.interlan.com (Charlie Root) Subject: Re: IDE drive problems - is it a bug? Organization: The Internet Access Company Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1993 18:20:04 GMT Message-ID: <CHMLLH.2DL@interlan.Interlan.COM> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <2dl8s1$8v7@sun.rhbnc.ac.uk> Sender: news@interlan.Interlan.COM (news account) Lines: 14 simon@dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk wrote: [ extra cruft deleted ] I had the same problem until I surrendered and did the following. I installed BSD on the second drive. Once the basic install is done, I mounted the second drive and erased all of the files on the second drive and it has worked great. You can perform this workaround alot faster than experimenting with the "official" way to bring up a second drive. -- ---------------------------- ||| Tim Jackson/NCM/TIAC ||| ----------------------------