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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!crl5.crl.com!not-for-mail From: sadu@crl.com (C. Sanjayan Rosenmund) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0R fails to find my HDs Date: 16 Dec 1994 01:41:01 -0800 Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access (415) 705-6060 [Login: guest] Lines: 51 Message-ID: <3crnbd$pr0@crl5.crl.com> References: <3bh42f$5ja@gate.sinica.edu.tw> <JKH.94Nov30115736@whisker.hubbard.ie> <3bm0gn$566@gate.sinica.edu.tw> <3c03jr$50u@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <D0EJnx.Ct2@cutie.ka.sub.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: crl5.crl.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Patrick M. Hausen (pmh@cutie.ka.sub.org) wrote: : nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: : >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. : You most probably can't change the IO address on _any_ IDE "controller" : since these so called "controllers" are only a bunch of bus drivers or : latches or whatever, don't know exactly. : The real controller is an integral part of your disk drive - hence the : trouble with two drives from different manufacturers, master/slave mode : settings and the like. : Look for some way to set the disk drive into "master only" mode, or : "primary address" or whatever it may be called. If there is no such : option - get a different drive :-( : Paddy : -- : Patrick M. Hausen -- Gerwigstr. 11 -- 76131 Karlsruhe -- Germany : Phone: +49-721-699234 -- Email: pmh@cutie.ka.sub.org : "The difference between theory and practice in practice is bigger than the : difference between theory and practice in theory." (Peter da Silva) I have a similar problem... DOS finds my SCSI drive but BSD does not. When I tried moving the irq the on board BIOS screamed at me ( so I put it back :)) I'm running an AK-47 controler by CSC in Sunnyvale, CA. The floppies are also on this board and *they* read fine in bsd. Can anyone help with this one? Email me ASAP (as I have to deal with DOS until I get this fixed <*sob*>) Sanjay sadu@crl.com