Re: Seagate ST3250310AS not recognized

2014-03-27 Thread Charlie Farinella
- Original Message - On 03/26/14 16:59, Charlie Farinella wrote: I'm trying to install OpenBSD 5.4 on a Dell Vostro 400, it's several years old but not ancient. 4GB RAM, 250GB Seagate ST3250310AS hard drive. The installation goes normally until it tries to find the hard drive

Seagate ST3250310AS not recognized

2014-03-26 Thread Charlie Farinella
I'm trying to install OpenBSD 5.4 on a Dell Vostro 400, it's several years old but not ancient. 4GB RAM, 250GB Seagate ST3250310AS hard drive. The installation goes normally until it tries to find the hard drive and then tells me no hard drive is available. I've wiped the drive (it had

Re: Seagate ST3250310AS not recognized

2014-03-26 Thread Kenneth Westerback
http://www.openbsd.org/report.html On 26 March 2014 16:59, Charlie Farinella cfarine...@appropriatesolutions.com wrote: I'm trying to install OpenBSD 5.4 on a Dell Vostro 400, it's several years old but not ancient. 4GB RAM, 250GB Seagate ST3250310AS hard drive. The installation goes

Re: Seagate ST3250310AS not recognized

2014-03-26 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Wed, 26 Mar 2014, Charlie Farinella wrote: I'm trying to install OpenBSD 5.4 on a Dell Vostro 400, it's several years old but not ancient. 4GB RAM, 250GB Seagate ST3250310AS hard drive. The installation goes normally until it tries to find the hard drive and then tells me no hard drive

Re: Seagate ST3250310AS not recognized

2014-03-26 Thread Daniel Dickman
Hi Charlie. Bit of a shot in the dark. what sata ports are on the motherboard? can you switch the ports the hard drive is connected to? i have a machine with a similar problem but things work if I connect the hard drive to the sata 2 port instead of the sata 3 port. On Mar 26, 2014, at 4:59

Re: Seagate ST3250310AS not recognized

2014-03-26 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014, at 05:11 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote: On Wed, 26 Mar 2014, Charlie Farinella wrote: I'm trying to install OpenBSD 5.4 on a Dell Vostro 400, it's several years old but not ancient. 4GB RAM, 250GB Seagate ST3250310AS hard drive. The installation goes normally until it

Re: Seagate ST3250310AS not recognized

2014-03-26 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Wed, 26 Mar 2014, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: On OpenBSD the drive itself should show up in the installer regardless of whatever garbage is in the partition table. For a Windows install, your advice would be spot-on, but OpenBSD's installer is much more intelligent than anything that came out of

Re: Seagate ST3250310AS not recognized

2014-03-26 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/26/14 16:59, Charlie Farinella wrote: I'm trying to install OpenBSD 5.4 on a Dell Vostro 400, it's several years old but not ancient. 4GB RAM, 250GB Seagate ST3250310AS hard drive. The installation goes normally until it tries to find the hard drive and then tells me no hard drive is

Re: Seagate ST3250310AS not recognized

2014-03-26 Thread Eric Furman
Everyone who gets useful tech support from this list should feel obligated to donate something to the project. Especially if a Dev took his time to help you; http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/ports/geo/openbsd-developers/files/OpenBSD On Wed, Mar 26, 2014, at 10:52 PM, Nick