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Date:      Wed, 29 Nov 1995 13:35:55 -0800 (PST)
From:      invalid opcode <coredump@georgewk.slip.netcom.com>
To:        kshuff@fast.net
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installation problems
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.951129133317.257A-100000@georgewk.slip.netcom.com>
In-Reply-To: <Chameleon.951127172209.kshuff@kshuff.fast.net>

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>    I am running two hard drives slaved together off the primary port of the 
> controller card. One is a Maxtor 540m ide as master, and the other is a 
> Seagate 125m ide as slave. Also I am using a Sony IDE CD-Rom running on the 
> secondary port of the controller. The maxtor 540 is my DOS disk and the 
> Seagate 125 is formatted with dos and is empty at the moment. I would like 
> to install FreeBSD on the second hard drive.
> 
>    The problem I am running into is when I boot FreeBSD from the boot 
> floppy, it recognizes the maxtor 540 drive as wd0, but it does not find the 
> seagate 125 drive. I would like to allocate that drive for FreeBSD only. All 
> my BSD distributions are on the maxtor drive. BSD will boot and I get the 
> menu, but when I go to the partioner theirs only one drive available.
> 

Same thing happens to me, i have a Maxtor 7345AT (345M) as drive 0, a 
Quantum 420M as drive 1, and an ATAPI cdrom on a seperate controller card. 
When I boot, it will only recognize drive 0. I see this is a trend when 
one has an extra ide-adapter. Any help would be appreciated.

coredump@georgewk.slip.netcom.com




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