Re: 3.2 Install doesn't see Seagate HDD

On Friday 22 November 2002 21:46, Sean McKeever wrote:

> [...] to run this successfully you have to
> have a DOS partition created on the disk already, with you successfully
> installing Free(?) BSD on the disk that tells me there was no overlay
> already installed on the drive it would have chocked on it as well, or
> overwritten it as part of the install.

No! nothing is successfully installed on the drive. It used to have Wintendows 98 on it (which did boot normally), then after I low-level formatted it, nothing.

FreeBSD is installed on the other drive, a Quantum 880Mb.

> there could be a problem with the
> IDE controller/disk combination.

I looked it up on seagate.com, but I didn't find anything meaningful.

> If that is the case, check Seagate's
> website for the jumper setting for the drive, there are usually some
> additional setting for the jumpers that seem to do the same thing as the
> original, but usually do it in a slightly different way to accommodate
> bizarre circumstances.

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Jumper settings checked on Seagate website, but found irrelevant. They only serve for master/slave/factory test/reserved. They are set to master already, and no other hard drive is installed in the system.

Bert Received on Fri Nov 22 18:52:08 2002