Third IDE hard disk

Mark admin at asarian-host.net
Sat May 15 05:10:07 PDT 2004


anubis wrote:

> On Sat, 15 May 2004 8:26 am, Mark wrote:

>> I installed my new FreeBSD 4.9R on my new ASUS KV8 Deluxe board.
>> Everything work fine... except, FreeBSD cannot find the third
>> harddisk! (the third IDE, as master on the third IDE port).
>> 
>> How do I enable it? Or make FreeBSD see it? (please, please, let me
>> not have to recompile the kernel).

> I did some reading and found this.

Thank you.

> The third ata channel has to be turned on in the bios and configured
> to be raid or ata. Did you do this?

Yes, I did. I enabled it, and set it to standard ATA 133 mode (the RAID mode is different, and forms a RAID, together with the Via chipset).

- Mark



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