FreeBSD doesn't recognize my hard drive

Tim Goodaire tgoodaire at linux.ca
Fri Oct 28 10:22:56 PDT 2005


They're IDE drives. The first drive is detected as this:

 ad0: 38166MB <WDC WD400EB-00CPF0 06.04G06> at ata0-master UDMA33

Tim

Derrick MacPherson wrote:

>ide? scsi? what type of card or controller are the plugged into?
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>On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 13:06 -0400, Tim Goodaire wrote:
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>>Hello everyone,
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>>I'm having an odd problem. I have an old P2 box with two harddrives. 
>>Both of them are detected fine in the BIOS, and they are both listed at 
>>boot up, when it lists the BIOS drives. After that, there is no mention 
>>of the second drive in the boot messages, and there isn't a device 
>>listed for it in /dev.
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>>I don't know what's going on. Both drives worked find under Linux, and 
>>it seems like FreeBSD sort of knows about this drive. Any ideas on what 
>>I can do to track down the problem?
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>>Thanks,
>>Tim
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