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From: porter@fozzie (Ron Porter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: drive type problem
Date: 26 Jul 1994 16:23:18 GMT
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I'm having a problem getting FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 to recognise that i have an
IDE hard drive while installing. As i'm going through the installation
and FreeBSD is asking questions about my hard drive it asks "what type
drive ESDI SCSI ST506 or IDE" it has IDE as the default. The drive is an
IDE so i've tried just hitting return, typing in ide and IDE, but it
still lists at the end dt=st506. And if i try to give it a nonexistant
drive to install to it comes back with somthing like "can't write to
disk are you sure it's type is st506" I type no and then IDE but this
still doesn't help. This happens with both generic IDE controllers i've
tried. Is there somthing wrong with the hardware(drive, controller
motherboard??) or is the a way to change this in software.

intel 486sx
hd 3.5 and hd5.25
monochrome adapter with lpt port
Maxtor 7131AT IDE hd

  Thanks Ron Porter

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