Subject: Re: FreeBSD
From: Jon Reynolds (jonr@destar.net)
Date: Tue May 14 2002 - 08:17:33 AKDT
sounds like a floppy drive with the cable on backwards, have you tried
flipping the cable around for the ide? Also make sure that you dont have
the HD connected to the same power supply as the fan.
Jon
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 23:42, Mike Tibor wrote:
>
> On Mon, 13 May 2002, Adam Elkins wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to get FreeBSD on a 486 (yes, another one), I get as far as
> > the /stand/sysinstall Main Menu
> > But as soon as I get there, my HDD LED comes on and stays on...when I go
> > to run fdisk, it says it can't see any HDD....I read the f'n manuel, and
> > it says nothing about this type of thing. I'm guessing it's a module or
> > something....I need guidance.
>
> What kind of hard drive controller do you have? Are the drives physically
> set up correctly? (ie, if SCSI, are they terminated correctly; if IDE,
> are the master/slave jumpers correctly set, etc.)
>
> This sounds like a hardware problem...
>
> Mike
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