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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NO HARD DISKS FOUND!!!
Date: 16 Feb 1997 20:41:49 GMT
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"Webmaster" <webmaster@club-webb.com> wrote:

> I am installing on a 486 with 8 megs of ram to try and get an
> understanding of BSD and no matter what I do I can't seem to get my
> hard drive running.  there are no conflicts and I was wondering if
> BSD supports small maxtor ide hard drives?

Well, quote your boot messages, in particular those related to `wd' or
`wdc' devices.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)