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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!sundog.tiac.net!news.sprintlink.net!bga.com!bga.com!nobody From: sschwarz@bga.com (Stan Schwarz) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Second IDE controller for FreeBSD? Date: 15 Sep 1994 13:37:04 -0500 Organization: Real/Time Communications - Bob Gustwick and Associates Lines: 17 Message-ID: <35a48g$mo8@ghostwheel.bga.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ghostwheel.bga.com Has anyone gotten this to work? We are trying to install a second IDE disk controller in a PC running FreeBSD. It seems like this should be possible, since the default kernel looks for a second disk controller in its bus probe at boot time. We put the second board in, and fiddled with the jumpers to put it at a different address and IRQ. Still, the PC says 'HDD Controller failure' when we try to start it up. By booting off the floppy drive we can see the bus probe seeing the second controller, but we can't get it to boot off the hard disk. Stan -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stan | "If meetings were horses, then rides would be free..." sschwarz@bga.com | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------