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 PM, 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 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 ESXi on it before), repartitioned it, > unpartitioned it, installed Linux, installed FreeBSD all without problem, but > no matter what I do to it, OpenBSD won't see it. > > I would really like to get this working so any suggestions or guidance is > very much appreciated. > > Thanks, > > --charlie > > -- > Charles Farinella > Systems Administrator > Appropriate Solutions, Inc. > 603-924-6079
