partitioning program does not see scsi disk

[Nikos Ntarmos]

Hi there.

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 01:00:11PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> so it should be supported by the ncr(4) driver. I could not see this
> driver in modules or in kernel (why? should it appear somewhere?) so
> I further loaded sym(4) module before booting:

That was probably the right thing to do. In GENERIC v1.186.2.9 (the
one on the 6.2-RELEASE branch[1]) ncr(4) is commented out, with
sym(4)'s comment stating that it supports "NCR/Symbios Logic (newer
chipsets + those of `ncr')" (although GENERIC has 'device sym', so it
should already be in the kernel if it's GENERIC that's on the media...)

> and I can see the disk detected correctly by sym during boot:
[...]
> but after that I cannot see the disk (this is a screen copy):

This is usually caused by the disk not having a bsd disklabel, which
is (also usually) corrected with a
# disklabel -W da0; dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/rda0c bs=8k count=1

> Now, how do I do that? Do I actually need to remove the disk from
> alpha and put in some other unix box?

It's been years since I last installed FreeBSD/alpha but I seem to
remember there was a shell fired up on VTY4 (and there is always the
"Fixit" sysinstall(8) option that drops you to a shell).

> 	The kernel config file must contain:
> 
> 	options    DEC_ST6600    
> 	cpu EV5
> 
> I'm not sure how to do this before boot.

These should already be in the kernel per [1].

Cheers...

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[1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/sys/alpha/conf/Attic/GENERIC?rev=1.186.2.9;content-type=text%2Fplain;hideattic=0