netbsd-help: Re: Can't use install disk to put NetBSD on drive on 2nd IDE channel

Subject: Re: Can't use install disk to put NetBSD on drive on 2nd IDE channel
To: Zach Fine <zach@xdsl014.serv.net>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/14/1999 17:45:04

On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 01:17:48AM -0700, Zach Fine wrote:
> 
> I just bought a new hard disk, a 20 gig UDMA/66 drive (not that my
> drive controller does UDMA/66, but it'll still be a nice fast IDE
> drive). For whatever reason, it insists on being attached to my
> secondary IDE controller.
> 
> I figured that I'd do a fresh install of NetBSD 1.4.1 on this
> drive. Unfortunately, the install disk doesn't seem to include support 
> for the secondary IDE controller. 

It does, for sure. What kind of controller do you have ?
Are you sure it's not disabled in the BIOS ?
Could you tell what the kernel says about pciide0 ?

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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