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From: ats@first.gmd.de (Andreas Schulz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: drive type problem
Message-ID: <5374@bigfoot.first.gmd.de>
Date: 30 Jul 94 07:33:18 GMT
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In article <313d9m$6ke@news.doit.wisc.edu>, Ron Porter <porter@fozzie> wrote:
>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

Don't worry about it. For the disktab an IDE drive is a ST506 drive. 
Don't forget, IDE is only a superset of ST506. If you go further
in the install with the dt=st506, are you running into other failures ?

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