Danny MacMillan wrote:
Hi,
I have a machine with the following two drives (as listed in dmesg):
ad0: 12427MB at ata0-master UDMA33
ad2: 76319MB at ata1-master UDMA33
ad0 is the boot drive. It is recognized by the BIOS, obviously, and
has been in the machine for some years. ad2 is a new dr
Danny,
FWIW, my FBSD 6 is running on a new "80GB" IDE disk my Asus A7V266
(Athlon mobo from end-2001) thought was 8GB in size. I set the disk
type to manual in the (latest) BIOS, and defined the geometry as seen
by sysinstall.
It's the only device on the primary channel, running as master, CD-RO
MacMillan; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD safely use a (un-booted from) drive that is
invisible to the BIOS?
On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 03:48:57PM -0500, Bob Johnson wrote:
> On 3/31/06, Danny MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > [,,,]
>
On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 03:48:57PM -0500, Bob Johnson wrote:
> On 3/31/06, Danny MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > [,,,]
> > ad0 is the boot drive. It is recognized by the BIOS, obviously, and
> > has been in the machine for some years. ad2 is a new drive I just
> > added to the machine ye
On 3/31/06, Danny MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [,,,]
> ad0 is the boot drive. It is recognized by the BIOS, obviously, and
> has been in the machine for some years. ad2 is a new drive I just
> added to the machine yesterday. It is not visible to the BIOS at all.
> If anyone can posit a
You have 2 problems here. bios not seeing the HD and
the old FBSD HD geometry WARNING.
For the FBSD HD geometry WARNING you can just let FBSD use what
ever it thinks it should be. This is not a problem.
Your bios problem is most likely a hardware config thing.
If the 2 HDs are on the same ribbon
