From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 9 07:50:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA13409 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 07:50:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zeus.cstp.umkc.edu (zeus.cstp.umkc.edu [134.193.2.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA13376 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 07:49:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sramam@zeus.cstp.umkc.edu) Received: from localhost (sramam@localhost) by zeus.cstp.umkc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id JAA02987 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 09:49:51 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 09:49:50 -0500 (CDT) From: "Shishir K. Ramam" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: help installing WD hard drive... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am having trouble getting free bsd to recognize a western digital hard drive. any help would be greatly appreciated. more details follow... the drive in question : WDC AC33100 (3 gig hard drive) the geomwtry : 6136 Cyl | 16 heads | 63 S/T | 512 T/S the problem : on installing FreeBSD, and rebooting, i come up with "F?" and things stall. I checked the geometry and set it right. but this keeps repeating. HELP! -shishir To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message