>you didn't do anything wrong.  i don't think 9load recognizes your
>[sp]ata chipset.  you should see something like this if it recognises
>the hd:
>
>    Boot devices: fd0 ether0 sdC0!dos sdC0!9fat
>
>in your case you should see sdC1!dos in the list.  one further bit,
>plan 9 does not recognize fat32.
>
>- erik

ya, i tried sdC1!dos so its must be the hardware.
Figures as much, it is somewhat of a legacy HW ;-)
Well, I suppose this thread is resolved, I won't even bother with asking a driver +/- patched kernel so its VM for me ;-)

Thankes !
Ram Kromberg
ramkromberg@mail.com

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