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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