From nobody@FreeBSD.org Thu Jan 19 13:58:49 2006 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 357F716A41F for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:58:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nobody@FreeBSD.org) Received: from www.freebsd.org (www.freebsd.org [216.136.204.117]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E450F43D58 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:58:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nobody@FreeBSD.org) Received: from www.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.freebsd.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k0JDwmY5061163 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:58:48 GMT (envelope-from nobody@www.freebsd.org) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by www.freebsd.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id k0JDwlvu061119; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:58:47 GMT (envelope-from nobody) Message-Id: <200601191358.k0JDwlvu061119@www.freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:58:47 GMT From: Dimitris Rizopoulos To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: No disks found during installation (Normal PCI-IDE, 80GB HDD) X-Send-Pr-Version: www-2.3 >Number: 91997 >Category: i386 >Synopsis: No disks found during installation (Normal PCI-IDE, 80GB HDD) >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-i386 >State: closed >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Jan 19 14:00:12 GMT 2006 >Closed-Date: Tue Mar 21 01:00:31 GMT 2006 >Last-Modified: Tue Mar 21 01:00:31 GMT 2006 >Originator: Dimitris Rizopoulos >Release: 6.0 >Organization: >Environment: >Description: I am trying to install FreeBSD 6.0 on an IBM PC 300GL (Pentium III 533MHz with 80GB Western Digital HDD) On standard installation I receive a message "no disks found!" When I try to install Windows XP, XP does recognize the disk. I had FreeBSD 6.0 before on this machine, using an IBM 20GB HDD and it was working fine. Please help Dimitris. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: From: "Dimitris Rizopoulos" To: Cc: Subject: Re: i386/91997: No disks found during installation (Normal PCI-IDE, 80GB HDD) Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:20:10 +0200 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C61D91.F25CD7C2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The problem was solved. The disk has been recognized by FreeBSD only after being placed as CS (Cable Select) on the second connector of the IDE cable. Although in other configurations it was properly recognized by Windows XP, only this configuration worked for FreeBSD. Dimitris. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C61D91.F25CD7C2 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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------_=_NextPart_001_01C61D91.F25CD7C2-- State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: linimon State-Changed-When: Tue Mar 21 00:59:21 UTC 2006 State-Changed-Why: Submitter notes that he found a workaround. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=91997 >Unformatted: