Seagate HD not detected by FreeBSD

Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC chad at shire.net
Sat May 28 21:09:28 PDT 2005


On May 28, 2005, at 7:31 PM, Ulf Magnusson wrote (quote Dave):
>>
>> OK your drive is recognized as at1
>> Here is the page from the handbook on www.freebsd.org - if you
>> follow the
>> instructions you should be OK:
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>> -------------------
>> 16.3 Adding Disks
>> Originally contributed by David O'Brien.
>>
>> Lets say we want to add a new SCSI disk to a machine that currently
>> .......
>>
>
> Excuse me if I'm being slow, but exactly where did you glean that
> information?
> I don't have any at1 node in /dev, at1 isn't mentioned anywhere in the
> boot messages, and Fdisk still acts like it only knows of one drive.


He is wrong.

It appears he misread the second ATA bus ata1 as a drive.

Chad


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