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From: ywliu@beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw ()
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0R fails to find my HDs
Date: 2 Dec 1994 02:24:23 GMT
Organization: Computing Center, Academia Sinica
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Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie) wrote:
: In article <3bh42f$5ja@gate.sinica.edu.tw> ywliu@beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw () writes:

: 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.

  This morning I tried to change my IDE controller I/O address setting. 
However, there isn't such a thing. So I changed it with another IDE card.
There is no I/O address setting, either. No luck, FreeBSD 2.0R still failed 
to identify the new controller .OTOH, I tried to boot FreeBSD on another
PC and it finds that controller. 

  The one thing in common is both cards are multi-I/O card - IDE + serial
ports + parallel ports + game. One uses UMC chipset, the other Twinhead. 
Now I have no idea how this happened. Is there any workaround ? Or, could
anyone give me more hint to identify the problem ?

Yen-Wei Liu