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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!cloudbreak.rs.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!howland.erols.net!feed1.news.erols.com!wdcpop.dra.net!news.dra.com!netaxs.com!usenet From: Jed Clear <clear@netaxs.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can't get 3rd IDE drive running! Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 21:26:54 -0500 Organization: Net Access - Philadelphia's Original ISP Lines: 19 Message-ID: <32F7EFEE.2F7A@netaxs.com> References: <5d752p$a1@cathy.obs.ee> Reply-To: clear@netaxs.com NNTP-Posting-Host: wyndmoor1-25.slip.netaxs.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35018 Tanel Kuusk wrote: > I have a problem getting my machine working. The hardest thing > is that my FreeBSD doesn't recognize the second IDE controller > at all. And what's even more strange, it doesn't recognize my > COM3 & COM4 that BIOS finds. > My configuration is an old 486 with Award BIOS (1992), VLB EIDE > controller and an additional Multi I/O from where I use only > COM ports (3e8, irq 5 and 2e8, irq 9). > I tried booting DOS 6.2 and it talked to COM ports, but didn't > recognize the third IDE drive (first drive on second ctrl) as well. > Any ideas? A few . . . . Here are the relevant ones: Is the IDE drive strapped for single disk (as opposed to master or slave)? Does the EIDE controller have a BIOS setup that needs changing? (e.g. Adaptec uses <ctrl-A> during boot to access the controller bios) Or possibly jumpers on the controller, review the ... manual -Jed