aic7xxx/FreeBSD/Linux can't find disk drives

[Matt Bjornson]

Kent,

Thanks again.  I've spent the weekend trying to get this thing going... 
  I know both scsi hosts are supported by FreeBSD and Linux, there 
aren't any IRQ conflicts between the devices....

I am perplexed.

thanks again,

Matt
On Jan 11, 2004, at 12:38 PM, Kent Stewart wrote:

> On Sunday 11 January 2004 08:29 am, Matt Bjornson wrote:
>> Kent,
>>
>> Thanks, still nothing...   you're right I forgot to change my email
>> to /dev/da for FreeBSD (/dev/sda is Linux scsi drive)  Any other
>> ideas? I thought there might be some IRQ conflicts but there isn't
>> when I look in kernel config before install...  These aren't RAID
>> so I thought it'd be a no brainer....
>
> When you are running sysinstall, the fdisk option has always presented
> me with the device name of the HDs I had connected to the scsi
> adapter. It would be something like da0, da1, and etc., which you
> would create the slices and partitions.
>
> I can't help beyond that because I don't have any systems with scsi
> HDs on them. I could build a system with 2 - ata-133 80GB HDs on it
> for what a good uw scsi adapter and HD would cost.
>
> Kent
>
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Matt
>>
>> On Jan 11, 2004, at 2:45 AM, Kent Stewart wrote:
>>> On Saturday 10 January 2004 09:06 pm, Matt Bjornson wrote:
>>>> I have a Dell PowerEdge 2400 with dual 733 Mhx CPUs.  I have
>>>> tried to install  several distros of Linux (Red Hat 9.0 and
>>>> Gentoo 1.4) and FreeBSD 4.8, 5.0 and while I can get the kernels
>>>> to recognize the Adaptec 7890 and the Adaptec 7880 and use my
>>>> scsi CDROM, when I fdisk to try to create partitions, I receive
>>>> a unable to find /dev/sda Thanks
>>>
>>> All of the scsi disks I ever had were refered to as /dev/da...
>>>
>>> Kent
>>>
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>>> Richland, WA
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