i386/91997: No disks found during installation (Normal PCI-IDE, 80GB HDD)

Thu Jan 19 23:30:13 PST 2006

The following reply was made to PR i386/91997; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Dimitris Rizopoulos" <drizo72 at mycosmos.gr>
To: <bug-followup at FreeBSD.org>
Cc:  
Subject: Re: i386/91997: No disks found during installation (Normal PCI-IDE, 80GB HDD)
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:20:10 +0200

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