Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 17:33:06 -0500 From: Jon Doe <jondoe@datacruz.com> To: markh@lon.imag.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ide hard drives Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000429173306.007b9310@datacruz.com>
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At 05:59 PM 4/29/00 -0400, you wrote >IDE support certainly has not been dropped from FreeBSD. SCSI may be the >obvious choice on server systems, but too many people have IDE hard drive >on their home PC for FreeBSD to get away with dropping support for IDE. > >When you say that it's not detecting your hard drive, are you not seeing >ad0 in the device listing when you boot? If you are, but it's just not >mounting, did you update your /etc/fstab file? What happens when you type > >mount /dev/ad0s1a / > >The changes in the fstab file are really the only thing I can think of. actually, i did a little bit more digging, and found out that 4.0 does not support the same hard disk controllers as before, so my motherboard is now absolute according to freebsd. i will have to install debian.. :/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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