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Hard Drive/BIOS Woes

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AndyTomaka

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What's up everyone,

I was going through attempting to have one of my 3.2GB HDDs work the other day and ran into a problem.

I originally atempted to put FreeBSD on the hard drive. I noticed that whenever I booted up, the computer did not find my hard drive (but found all other devices). I decided to attempt the installation anyway. I booted to the FreeBSD 4.6 (that's what CD I had lying around) CDRom via the two boot floppies (the BIOS I was using didn't allow the CDRom to be set as a bootable device). While loading the kernal, the hard drive was found, and listed properly. Furthermore, during the install process, whenever I had to setup my hard drive (file system and FreeBSD space allocation), the correct specifications were printed. After installing the operating system, which went fine, including all writing to the hard drive, I rebooted the system. When I booted, I had the same problem. The hard drive was unfound and I was unable to boot to it.

I can't figure out why FreeBSD would find my hard drive, and even be able to write to it, and my BIOS can't. I thought it may be computer specific, but I tried it on another machine for a different use and the same problem occured.

Anything you guys can offer would be a great help as I am truly baffled by this one.

Thanks!
 
Thanks for the quick response!

I do have the hard drives jumpered correctly. I actually have four drives that I am working with. Two of them are Seagate 3.2GB drives. I'm not sure which model these are, but they came from Compaq computers. The other two are Western Digital 1.6GB Caviars (1x 21600, 1x31600). The 21600 drive is being detected, so that would mean that at least the 31600 is jumpered correctly. I have the Seagate's jumpered as they should be as long as they are marked correctly.

Basically, I am just doing a two drive setup. I have a DVD on IDE 2 set as master and that is detected perfectly fine. I am trying to get the hard drive setup on IDE 1. I am using a cable with one drive inputand am using the drives setup as master. Is BIOS, I have the drives set to Auto, though I think I tried setting one of the 3.2GB up manually on another computer with the same results.
 
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