Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 02:28:36 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: Brett McLain <bjm336@mail.usask.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't find my hard drive Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20060921022721.02100648@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <2327212.1158823049143.JavaMail.bjm336@mail.usask.ca> References: <2327212.1158823049143.JavaMail.bjm336@mail.usask.ca>
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I would verify your installation using the utilities from the manufacturer
of the second hard disk. You should be able to download a bootable iso
with the utility and boot that to verify your drive is properly installed.
-Derek
At 02:17 AM 9/21/2006, Brett McLain wrote:
>Hmm they're both SATA drives set as masters. I tried some more today
>and i'm still unable to do it. There seems no way to make it recognize
>it. It would SEEM that it doesn't recognize the drive when the cd
>begins its setup. I'm not 100% sure on that....although i know for
>sure its in the BIOS and working properly and fine. Its already set up
>with a partition in fat 32....anyone have some ideas?
>
>-Brett
>
>Derek Ragona wrote:
>
>
> >To use the second drive you will probably need to also change a switch
>or
> >jumper on the drive changing it from a slave drive to a master. At
>that
> >point the BIOS should show it correctly as a master drive. In most
>BIOS
> >these days there is a setting for boot device order, you may need to
>check
> >that the second drive is in that list.
> >
> > -Derek
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >At 04:49 PM 9/20/2006, Brett J McLain wrote:
> >>Er yeah sorry, I mean BIOS not registry haha. It shows up fine...when
>I
> >>tried unplugging my main 80gb drive, I tried booting twice to the other
> >>drive and it would just sit there after attempting to detect DMI
>settings
> >>or some such other thing. I found it odd because I expected an
>"Operating
> >>System Not Found" error.
> >>
> >>-Brett
> >>
> >>
> >>Derek Ragona wrote:
> >>>Does the second drive show up correctly in your BIOS? Or are you using
>a
> >>>device driver to use the drive with windows?
> >>>
> >>> -Derek
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>At 03:42 PM 9/20/2006, Brett McLain wrote:
> >>>>Hi, i've got a Windows XP pro computer with two drives. Ones a 80gb
> >>>>western digital raptor, and the other is a 7200.10 seagate 320gb drive.
> >>>> The 320 gb drive has two partitions....one thats 29.5 gb and is in
> >>>>fat32 mode (i'm hoping to use it for freebsd) and then the rest is for
> >>>>my media. My boot and copy of xp are on the raptor. I'm trying to
> >>>>install freebsd 6.1 release but its not seeing my other drive (i don't
> >>>>think?) all I can see at the install screen is my raptor drive. I even
> >>>>tried unplugging my main raptor drive and installing to the seagate,
> >>>>but it says no drives found. It discovers it in the registry and
> >>>>stuff....anyone have some ideas?
> >>>>
> >>>>-Brett McLain
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