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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!netmbx.de!zib-berlin.de!gmdtub!ats From: ats@first.gmd.de (Andreas Schulz) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: drive type problem Message-ID: <5374@bigfoot.first.gmd.de> Date: 30 Jul 94 07:33:18 GMT References: <313d9m$6ke@news.doit.wisc.edu> Sender: news@bigfoot.first.gmd.de Organization: GMD-FIRST Lines: 17 In article <313d9m$6ke@news.doit.wisc.edu>, Ron Porter <porter@fozzie> wrote: >I'm having a problem getting FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 to recognise that i have an >IDE hard drive while installing. As i'm going through the installation >and FreeBSD is asking questions about my hard drive it asks "what type >drive ESDI SCSI ST506 or IDE" it has IDE as the default. The drive is an >IDE so i've tried just hitting return, typing in ide and IDE, but it >still lists at the end dt=st506. And if i try to give it a nonexistant Don't worry about it. For the disktab an IDE drive is a ST506 drive. Don't forget, IDE is only a superset of ST506. If you go further in the install with the dt=st506, are you running into other failures ? -- ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de ) Andreas Schulz GMD-FIRST 12489 Berlin-Adlershof Rudower Chaussee 5 Gebaeude 13.7 Tel: +49-30-6392-1856 Germany/Europe