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#! rnews 1930 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!oleane!pasteur.fr!jussieu.fr!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!atlantis.utmb.edu!news From: "Ernest Hymel" <ehymel@utmb.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Help! "No hard drive" on install??!!?? Date: 22 Oct 1996 06:30:24 GMT Organization: University of Texas Medical Branch Lines: 33 Message-ID: <01bbbfe2$7d51d650$27366d81@masscomp> NNTP-Posting-Host: masscomp.utmb.edu X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Hi all, hope someone can help me here. I'm about to pull my hair out. I'm trying to install freebsd 2.1.5-Release. I've made the install floppy, and install starts, but it won't recognize my second scsi disk (where I would like to install FreeBSD). If I remove the first disk and leave only the hard drive of interest, the install program says something about "no hard drive found!" The first disk (1GB) I have NT4 on, with scsi id=0. The second, empty, scsi id=3 on SC200 PCI controller (PPro 200 cpu, ASUS P6NP5 Natoma motherboard). I can use the same setup with a different disk with FreeBSD 2.1 already installed and have no problems. I have partitioned the disk in DOS using fdisk (1.7GB for FreeBSD and 300MB for a DOS partition later). I've also formatted both partitions, just to see if it made a difference. In NT4, I can see the partitions and read/write to them no problem. Another clue: from install, I hit <Alt><F2> to get to the boot-screen, and I can see these messages: sd1(ncr0:3:0):ABORTED COMMAND asc:4e,0 Overlapped commands attempted, retries 4 sd1(ncr0:3:0):ABORTED COMMAND asc:4e,0 Overlapped commands attempted, retries 3 ... etc. for retries 2, 1, Failure ... sd1:error reading primary partition table reading fsbn0 (sd1 bn0; cn0 tn0 sn0) The disk is an HP SureStore C3725S, 2 GB. Please explain what's going on!! Thanks in advance! -- Ernest Hymel ehymel@utmb.edu