From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 10 8: 3:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc2.on.home.com (ha2.rdc2.on.home.com [24.9.0.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FA5437B576 for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 08:03:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark.johnston@home.com) Received: from cd994175a ([24.108.100.121]) by mail.rdc2.on.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.17 201-229-119) with SMTP id <20000510150353.GEML2498.mail.rdc2.on.home.com@cd994175a> for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 08:03:53 -0700 Message-ID: <003b01bfba91$13455b80$79646c18@burows1.mb.wave.home.com> From: "Mark Johnston" To: Subject: 4.0-RELEASE installation: can't see my hard drive Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 10:04:44 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm having trouble installing 4.0-RELEASE - I get through the bootup and kernel setup, but the "Probing..." screen hangs for about 10-15 minutes. The installation screen comes up after that, but when I try to start setup, it tells me that no hard drives are found. The kernel options I have enabled are: port irq ata0 0x1f0 14 ata1 0x170 15 fdc0 0x3f0 6 ed0 0x300 9 ppc0 7 sio0 0x3f8 4 sio1 0x2f8 3 atkbd0 1 sc0 npx0 0xf0 13 Everything else is disabled. I'm using a 10.1gb Western Digital IDE drive on a fairly old system (P166, 32MB ram, crap motherboard), and I don't have EZ-BIOS (the large drive BIOS support software, intended mainly for Windows) installed. The HD is the primary master, and an ATAPI CD-ROM is the secondary master. The debug console shows some errors about timeouts waiting to send commands to ata0-master and read timeouts on ad0 - it also says that the device has disappeared. This system has run Win95 and Linux, and both found the hard drive without any trouble - I've also booted the OpenBSD install floppy, which found the HD OK. Where am I going wrong? Thanks, Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message