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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0R fails to find my HDs
Date: 5 Dec 1994 22:18:35 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  Montana
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Message-ID: <3c03jr$50u@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
References: <3bh42f$5ja@gate.sinica.edu.tw> <JKH.94Nov30115736@whisker.hubbard.ie> <3bm0gn$566@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
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In article <3bm0gn$566@gate.sinica.edu.tw>,
 <ywliu@beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw> wrote:
>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. 

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.



Nate



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