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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!werple.apana.org.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!cronkite.nersc.gov!dancer.ca.sandia.gov!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!noc.near.net!paperboy.wellfleet.com!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0R fails to find my HDs Date: 5 Dec 1994 22:18:35 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 31 Message-ID: <3c03jr$50u@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <3bh42f$5ja@gate.sinica.edu.tw> <JKH.94Nov30115736@whisker.hubbard.ie> <3bm0gn$566@gate.sinica.edu.tw> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <3bm0gn$566@gate.sinica.edu.tw>, <ywliu@beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw> wrote: >Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie) wrote: >: In article <3bh42f$5ja@gate.sinica.edu.tw> ywliu@beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw () writes: > >: Nope! Those are the names of your hard disk *controllers*. Most people >: will have only one, wdc0. If it couldn't find these, it means you have >: one weird IDE controller, or it's jumpered for very strange addresses. > > This morning I tried to change my IDE controller I/O address setting. >However, there isn't such a thing. So I changed it with another IDE card. >There is no I/O address setting, either. No luck, FreeBSD 2.0R still failed >to identify the new controller .OTOH, I tried to boot FreeBSD on another >PC and it finds that controller. So you are saying that FreeBSD doesn't find ANY controller? Are you trying to add 2 controllers to your machine? If so, then you need to get a controller that allows you to change the I/O address. Sticking two un-configurable controllers will not work in ANY operating system. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD dude and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | Unemployed, looking for permanant work in home #: (406) 586-0579 | CS/EE field.