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From: jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0R fails to find my HDs
Date: 30 Nov 1994 11:57:36 GMT
Organization: Jordan Hubbard
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Message-ID: <JKH.94Nov30115736@whisker.hubbard.ie>
References: <3bh42f$5ja@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
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In-reply-to: ywliu@beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw's message of 30 Nov 1994 05:54:23 GMT

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 ? However, during the installation boot FreeBSD

Nope!  Those are the names of your hard disk *controllers*.  Most people
will have only one, wdc0.  If it couldn't find these, it means you have
one weird IDE controller, or it's jumpered for very strange addresses.

					Jordan
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Jordan K. Hubbard	FreeBSD core team	Clams are your friends