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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!206.229.87.25!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-hub.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-fw-22.sprintlink.net!news.electrotex.com!mainway From: ywang@maingate.net (Ye Wang) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can't get 3rd IDE drive running! Date: Tue, 04 Feb 97 15:42:58 GMT Organization: Maingate Co. Lines: 29 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5d7lbu$k3r$1@news.electrotex.com> References: <5d752p$a1@cathy.obs.ee> NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.2.94.49 X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #2 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35051 In article <5d752p$a1@cathy.obs.ee>, tanel@cathy.obs.ee (Tanel Kuusk) wrote: >Hi folks, > >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? > >Tanel > Check the address and irqs, make sure there is no confict. I ran into the same problem before, changed a jumper on the second ctrl and it's working. Good luck. Ye (Sunny) Wang E-Mail : ywang@maingate.net Programmer Phone : (713) 523 - 1000 Maingate Co. Fax : (713) 523 - 2206 98% of all statistics are useless.