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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Install Prob: 2940 + eisa HD, BSD on scsi???
Date: 20 Sep 1996 01:52:05 +0100
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Todd Brous (toadler@panix.com) wrote:
: We cannot seem to get the 'sysinstall?' program to recognize the SCSI HD
: so that we may partition it.  We never see the menu on page 46 of the
: 'Installing & Running FreeBSD' manual which lets the user choose which
: drive one wishes to install FreeBSD.  All we get is FDISK showing us "disk
: name: wd0".

What sort of "ahc0" lines do you see at boot time ?  You can re-visit
the boot-up-messages with "dmesg".

If you can see ahc0 but don't see any drive, I'd suspect termination or
cabeling problems.  Can you CTRL-A at BIOS boot time and "SCSI Verify"
your drive ?

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Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....