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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Install on third disk?
Date: 2 Mar 1997 22:18:16 GMT
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rmuchala@osf1.gmu.edu (Reshma Muchalambkar) wrote:

> Its an Adaptec 2940UW and the BIOS is turned on. You may be right though because
> during booting it reports the first two disks as C: and D: but for the third
> it reports only the ID (82). 

That's ok.  The problem must be elsewhere.  Is your disk detected by
BSD at all?

Hit ScrollLock, and scroll back to the boot messages.  Look if your
disk has been found.

Failing this, go to the second screen (Alt-F2), and watch all the
messages there.

-- 
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. ;-)