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 > > h

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 Holland

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 i

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

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 unti

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 P

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 driv

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 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 ha