Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 09:20:41 -0500 From: Chris Corayer <CCorayer@adetech.com> To: "'stable@FreeBSD.ORG'" <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: stable-digest V5 #409 Message-ID: <DDB0EE290EC6D41190F000D0B73C6A1F021FD0E2@adehqmail.ade.com>
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------------------------------------------------ |"Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 18:17:43 +0000 (GMT) |From: Tim Joseph <tim.spam@spicy.org.uk> |Subject: HDD not detected during install (fwd) | |(Previously posted to comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc and freebsd-questions |without much joy) | |Hi, | |I have (I hope) a simple problem. | |I am trying to install FBSD 4.4 onto a TI Extensa 510 laptop. However, |when I reach the stage where I choose what I would like done to the |disk, the install program reports that it can't find the hard drive and I |have to give up. (I'm doing an FTP install over a PCMCIA network card.) | |I have previously installed OpenBSD 2.9 straight onto this machine without |any fiddling around! For info, OBSD detected the HD controller as a wdc0. | |OBSD dmesg attached. | |What can I try? Do I need to roll my own release with a new kernel to |support the wdc controller? If so, how do I make my own release? |" | |I had a similar problem with an NEC 5080x laptop. I never did get this to |work properly. I tried everything from setting the drive geometry on |install ( which wasn't always correct ) to going into the BIOS and setting |the translation type ( DOS or OTHER ) and the PIO transfer modes 0-4. None |of that made any difference. | |The only workaround I was ever able to find was to put the drive in another |machine with a hard drive adapter and install it there. I would install it |on the other machine and transfer to the new machine. It wasn't ideal, and |apm didn't work. I also had issues getting the sound to work. This is one |case where auto detection of hardware would have been nice. | |My guess on this is that your IDE chipset is not supported. Mine was not |listed as being supported. You MAY be able to get this to work or you may |run into the same problems I did. FWIW, OpenBSD 2.9 supports the NEC 50x0 |series of laptops with ZERO problems including the cardbus Xircom NIC. | |Debian, Mandrake, and Redhat never had any problems on this either. The |only thing I can think of is the IDE chipset driver... | |-Christopher Corayer --------------------------------------------------------------- For archival purposes... FreeBSD 4.5 seems to have partially solved the problem with the NEC 5000 series, at least to the point where it will install. Install is not successful via CD-ROM due to numerous read overruns and such. However, an FTP install does in fact work. APM does not appear to work. XFree86 4.1.x also works, using the shell config, not the graphical one. I am unsure as to whether or not the sound works, but that's largely irrelevent for my purposes. Excellent work guys!!! :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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