Repost -Help Re: Sata/IDE drive recognition problem
Vizion
vizion at vizion.occoxmail.com
Fri Aug 18 10:55:27 UTC 2006
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> Subject: Re: Sata/IDE drive recognition problem
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Vizion
> > Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 4:33 AM
> > To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > Subject: Sata/IDE drive recognition problem
> >
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > While preparing to move a system from i386 to amd
> > architecture The existing system is dual booting i386 for 5.4
> > stable and 6.0. My plan is to remove both systems, preserve
> > my data and reinstall 6.1 amd from cd.
> >
> > The motherboard is a FA-K8N51GMF-9 with 3 hard drives
> > installed. 2xSata and 1xIDE.
> >
> > Freebsd 5.4
> > #df sees
> > /dev/ad4s1a
> > devfs,
> > /dev/ad4s1e
> > /dev/ad4s1f
> > /dev/ad6s1d
> > /dev/ad6s1e
> > linprocfs
> >
> > Freebsd 6.0
> > #df sees
> > /dev/ad0s1a
> > devfs
> > /dev/ad0s1e
> > /dev/ad01f
> > /dev/ad0s1d
> > /dev/ad4s1a
> > /dev/ad4s1f
> > /dev/ad6s1d
> > devfs
> >
> > The CD installer select drives interface for 6.1 RELEASE
> > amd64 recognizes
> > ad0 and
> > ad4
> > but not ad6.
> >
> > For installing 6.1 amd I will need the installer to see all
> > physical devices and existing partitions.
> >
> > The Bios CMOS features show
> > IDE Channel 0 Master WDC WD2000JB
> > IDE Channel 0 Slave Lite-on CD-RW
> > IDE Channel 2 Master ST3160827AS
> > IDE Channel 3 Master WDC WD2000JD
> > The Advanced Bios features show
> > First boot device CDROM
> > Second Boot Device Hard Disk
> > Third boot Device Hard Disk
> >
> > The Hard disk boot priority sequence options show:
> > Ch0
> > Ch2
> > Ch3
> > root
> > shutdown -r
> >
> > /var/log/messages shows
> > ad0 WDC WD2000JB at ata0-master UDMA33
> > acd0 Lite-on at ata0-slave USMA33
> > ad4 ST3160827AS at ata2-master UDMA33
> > ad6 WDC WD2000JD at ata3-master UDMA33
> >
> > How do I get the installer select drives interface to recognize ad6?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > david
> >
> Following my previous posting I have now suvvessfully built
> amd64 on /dev/ad0 but not yet mounted ad4 or ad6. While ad4
> is "seen" according to /var/log/messages the new build does
> not "see" ad6 .. does anyone have any ideas how to fix this?
>
> Somer help would be apprecaited
>
> Thanks
>
I have almost finished the rebuild and binary compilations and need to be able to mount the as yet unrecognized ad6 - some help at this point would be really apprecaited.
thanks
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