Re: Third IDE hard disk

From: Ceri Davies (ceri_at_submonkey.net)
Date: 05/15/04

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To: Mark <admin@asarian-host.net>

    On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 11:28:24PM +0000, Mark wrote:
    > Vladim?r Benc wrote:
    >
    > > If a BSD box doesn't "see" the third IDE, this seems to be in the
    > > BIOS is Enabled only Primary IDE Controller. You must enable both
    > > Channels on the controller.
    >
    > All three IDE controllers are enabled in the BIOS, as far as I can tell.

    If the controller on these boards doesn't detect a drive attached, then
    the BIOS for the controller doesn't get installed, so make sure that
    it's probing the disks correctly when the machine boots, otherwise any
    OS will be unable to find it.

    > My greatest fear, however, is that FreeBSD cannot deal with a third IDE
    > controller. Can you at least alleviate that fear?

    Definitely not the case.

    Ceri 

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