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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nctuccca.edu.tw!news.cc.nctu.edu.tw!news!ywliu From: ywliu@beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw () Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0R fails to find my HDs Date: 6 Dec 1994 03:51:02 GMT Organization: Computing Center, Academia Sinica Lines: 13 Message-ID: <3c0n36$2su@gate.sinica.edu.tw> References: <3bh42f$5ja@gate.sinica.edu.tw> <JKH.94Nov30115736@whisker.hubbard.ie> <3bm0gn$566@gate.sinica.edu.tw> <3c03jr$50u@pdq.coe.montana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ywliu%@beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] Nate Williams (nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu) wrote: : So you are saying that FreeBSD doesn't find ANY controller? Are you : trying to add 2 controllers to your machine? If so, then you need to : get a controller that allows you to change the I/O address. Sticking : two un-configurable controllers will not work in ANY operating system. Of course not; I tested one at a time. Those controllers work very well under MS-DOS. I just didn't figure out how FreeBSD did to locate the IDE hard disk controller and why it failed but MS-DOS always succeeds. Yen-Wei Liu