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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!csugrad.cs.vt.edu!csugrad.cs.vt.edu!not-for-mail From: jaitken@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jeff Aitken) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.05 does not recognize my IDE controller Date: 27 Dec 1995 16:24:18 -0500 Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4bsdi2$s5v@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> References: <DK4ttA.Mu4@inter.NL.net> Reply-To: jaitken@vt.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: csugrad.cs.vt.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Jos Visser (jvisser@inter.NL.net) wrote: : The install kernel that gets booted from the first disk only recognizes : my SCSI controller (aic0) with it's dependent devices, but not my : IDE controller. : If I boot the kernel it declares 'wdc0 at 1f0 not found', and starts the : installation procedure. Boy does this sound familiar ;) I experienced this problem when I replaced one of my two IDE drives (both are Conner drives). I put the new one in, and a week or so later noticed that FreeBSD no longer saw my IDE controller. It didn't occur to me at the time that it was the replacement disk that was causing the problem, because both DOS and Windows '95 worked just fine (they run off of the IDE drives). It wasn't until I started ripping components out of the box that I was able to conclude that there was some problem with the two drives. It turns out that the newer Conner drive had to be jumpered a certain way to coexist happily with the older drive. Once I fixed that (after talking with a Conner tech support person for 10 minutes) everything worked. If you've got two IDE drives, try disconnecting one of them and rebooting the machine. If you see that drive, you've probably got a very similar problem to the one I had. -- Jeff Aitken jaitken@vt.edu