From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 17 3: 5:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Bespin.worldnet.net (bespin.worldnet.net [195.3.3.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B631B15753 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 03:05:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pcasidy@worldnet.fr) Received: from greatoak.home (p14-037.province.worldnet.fr [195.3.14.37]) by Bespin.worldnet.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA01179; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 12:01:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from pcasidy@localhost) by greatoak.home (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA01911; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 11:42:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from pcasidy) Message-Id: <199908170942.LAA01911@greatoak.home> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 11:42:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Philippe CASIDY Subject: Re: [HELP] Unrecognize IDE hard disk To: dan@jgl.reno.nv.us Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <050801bee7ee$dee16a20$0200000a@home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 16 Aug, Dan O'Connor wrote: > Hmmm...That's a strange one. > > Are you sure the jumpers on each drive are set properly for master and > slave? Yes they are. > You might also try removing the CDROM and sticking the 850MB drive on the > other IDE controller to see if it works there (make sure the jumpers are > correct for a single drive). In the old days (when Conner was still around), > there were some drives that just didn't get along well if you mixed > manufacturers on the same bus. The drive works fine under Win98. I was able to format, to copy some data on it. But unable to mount the drive as an msdos filesytem under 3.2-RELEASE. > If it works alone on the other controller, it's one of those "unfriendly" > drive situations. I have move the drive as a slave of the CDRom and it works fine with 3.2-RELEASE :-) > If it doesn't work, then there's something else amiss, and hopefully, > someone else out there has a better idea. Thanks for your idea. I am half happy with it now. I am happy it works but that means there cases that FreeBSD cannot deal with ;-( > Good luck, > > --Dan > > ** The thing I like most about Windows 98 is... > ** You can download FreeBSD with it! It recognizes more hardware ;-( Thanks you very much Dan, Phil. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message