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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!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.radio.cz!CESspool!news.apfel.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!news.urz.tu-dresden.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Install on third disk? Date: 2 Mar 1997 22:18:16 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <5fcub8$jd@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5ev7q9$p7d@portal.gmu.edu> <5f1spe$40c@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> <5f26m1$2u3@portal.gmu.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36410 rmuchala@osf1.gmu.edu (Reshma Muchalambkar) wrote: > Its an Adaptec 2940UW and the BIOS is turned on. You may be right though because > during booting it reports the first two disks as C: and D: but for the third > it reports only the ID (82). That's ok. The problem must be elsewhere. Is your disk detected by BSD at all? Hit ScrollLock, and scroll back to the boot messages. Look if your disk has been found. Failing this, go to the second screen (Alt-F2), and watch all the messages there. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)