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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!pipex!uknet!festival!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0R fails to find my HDs Message-ID: <D0346E.GF5@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <3bh42f$5ja@gate.sinica.edu.tw> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 14:27:50 GMT Lines: 23 In article <3bh42f$5ja@gate.sinica.edu.tw> ywliu@beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw () writes: > I suppose 'wdc0' and 'wdc1' should be the device names of my >hard disks, am I right ? No, wdc0 and wdc1 are the names of the first two (IDE) hard disk *controllers*. More likely you have one controller (wdc0) and two disks attached to it (wd0 and wd1). > However, during the installation boot FreeBSD >complaint 'wdc0' and 'wdc1' not found, so I couldn't pass the first step >of installation. Do you have some fancy caching controller? If so, try disabling caching. Also try booting MSDOS first, then doing ctl-alt-del. Or if that's what you're doing already, try booting BSD straight from power on, without booting anything else first. -- Richard -- Satan himself, in a sermon preached from the pulpit of North Berwick church, comforted his many servants by assuring them that no harm could befall them "sa lang as their hair wes on, an sould newir latt ane teir fall fra thair ene". - J G Frazer, The Golden Bough