From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 10 15:28:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C5E037B405 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 15:28:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f6AMSDJ10603; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 18:28:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) X-Authentication-Warning: fledge.watson.org: doug owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 18:28:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Doug Denault X-Sender: doug@fledge.watson.org Reply-To: Doug Denault To: El Buracco Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: You were very helpful! Thank you very much. (I mean it) In-Reply-To: <0mrmktk1ejtktuglqs6tja9eifioae5apa@4ax.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Did you post this to freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG? I did not see your first post but it is also my experience that you get (remarkably good) tips, or silence. If anyone else is running your hardware they will most likely chime in. On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, John Murphy wrote: > El Buracco wrote: > > >On July 2nd I posted an email describing my problem > >with FreeBSD 4.3 installation. I gave it a subject "my > >ad0 disappeared during install" in hope it would > >provoke some people to read the message, which was > >about an obscure disk problem. This problem was known > >before, as searching the archive revealed, but I > >didn't find a solution nonetheless. The unusual - > >AFAIK - part is that I kept on getting "device > >dissapeared" error, after which I had to power off the > >computer, because after just pushing the RESET button > >bios did not detect any of the devices on primary IDE > >controller. No one bothered to answer. If I deserve > >it, flame me. Otherwise come up with something. See > >freebsd-questions, July 2, El Buracco, my ad0 > >disappeared during install. > > > I detect a little irony in your subject line :) > > I don't think I've seen anyone flamed on this list, which is refreshing. > > Your problem does seem to be obscure, which means that no one can help > you much. I did a quick search at MARC for "dissapeared" in FreeBSD > questions, and this seems to be the only relevant answer: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=freebsd-questions&m=96576103029194&w=2 > > So perhaps it's a problem with your Fujitsu Picobird 13 MPD-3064-AT, 6181 > > (Searching on "disappeared" got a few more hits) > > HTH > John. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message