5.4 install disc1 will not find hard drive

Ted Mittelstaedt tedm at toybox.placo.com
Sun May 15 21:51:08 PDT 2005



> -----Original Message-----
> From: fbsd_user [mailto:fbsd_user at a1poweruser.com]
> Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 6:39 PM
> To: Ted Mittelstaedt; freebsd-questions at FreeBSD. ORG
> Subject: RE: 5.4 install disc1 will not find hard drive
> 
> 
> There is a  80 pin cable and its good because I tested it in another
> pc.
> 

I understand you may have an 80 pin cable on there and that you think
it must be good.

But the output you posted showed that the FreeBSD device driver thinks
you only have a 40 pin cable.  Either that is a bug or the ata chipset
cannot sense your 80 pin cable.  The obvious thing to do is to try
a different 80 pin cable.

> But your comments about snapshots is very interesting. I did not
> know about this.
> I checked the contents at the URL you posted. It looks like an
> install cd layout.
> Is there some command, script, or utility that will download and
> burn a cd from a snapshot?
> Is there any documentation on these snapshots and how to use one?
> 

Probably the FreeBSD handbook is the best place.

Ted


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