From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 27 13:20:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0328637B404 for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 13:20:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from attbi.com ([12.237.33.57]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020127212051.DXJH10199.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@attbi.com> for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 21:20:51 +0000 Message-ID: <3C546F38.AE459B3A@attbi.com> Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 15:20:57 -0600 From: Joe Halpin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: FreeBSD install doesn't see the whole disk References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Juha Saarinen wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Nik Clayton wrote: > > > Can you be more specific about this? And maybe submit a PR with details > > so we can get it in to the FAQ? > > CSEL = Cable Select. On IDE drives, you have three positions for the > jumper: Master, Slave and Cable Select. Think it's part of the PC97/98 > spec, and the idea is that CSEL will automagically configure drives as > Master and Slave according to their position on the IDE cable. > > CSEL requires an IDE cable which has pin 28 connected to ground, and not > to one of the drive connectors; the drive becomes configured as a slave > otherwise. If you use a non-CSEL cable, and have both drives jumpered as > CSEL, they show up as Master. If pin 28 isn't connected to the ground on > the motherboard IDE connector, the drives show up as slaves. > > I've had lots of fun with this one, trying to add drives to Compaqs... ;-) Out of curiosity, what's different between FreeBSD and Linx/DOS/BIOS such that they get the right disk parameters but FreeBSD doesn't? Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message