Disappearing Hard Drive?

Sat Sep 13 01:07:08 UTC 2008

I have a puzzling problem.  I'm sure I just missed something simple, but I can't figure out what.

I added a drive to my system as Master on controller 2.   After turning back on, I found I couldn't see that 80 GB drive on my system.  I turned it off, checked all settings, then turned it back on and verified that the BIOS can see it - it's properly listed as an 80 GB Samsung as Master on 2.  It sounds normal, looks normal and I can feel it spin up.

But I still don't see it on my system to mount it.  I had just done this process with a 40 GB drive and it worked just fine, so I knew that I knew how to do it.  That one showed up in dmesg and was easily mounted.  For what it's worth, my Linux desktop, when I hook this drive up to an oddball USB-ATA adapter, acts exactly like it does with every OTHER drive I've pulled out of a FreeBSD box - it sees it but hasn't a clue how to mount it properly.  So I don't think the drive is a dud or anything.  It was in use until a few weeks ago.

I will be verifying the drive is seen OK on another system shortly, but I'd thought I'd throw this out there before then to see if anyone has any ideas,.

If someone would be so kind as to point me to some relevant help, I would greatly appreciate it.  Please reply to me in addition to the list: I receive the list in digest only.

dmesg follows:
Copyright (c) 1992-2008 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #0: Fri Sep  5 02:34:20 CDT 2008
    rich at mobius.mahlerwein.homeip.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.60GHz (1595.16-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf12  Stepping = 2
  Features=0x3febfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM>
real memory  = 536608768 (511 MB)
avail memory = 511090688 (487 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: <D850MV MV85010A>
ioapic0 <Version 2.0> irqs 0-23 on motherboard
kbd1 at kbdmux0
ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
acpi0: <D850MV MV85010A> on motherboard
acpi0: [ITHREAD]
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
acpi0: reservation of 0, a0000 (3) failed
acpi0: reservation of 100000, 1ff00000 (3) failed
Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x408-0x40b on acpi0
pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
agp0: <Intel 82850 host to AGP bridge> on hostb0
pcib1: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> mem 0xff4e0000-0xff4fffff,0xf0000000-0xf3ffffff,0xec000000-0xefffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1
pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0
pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2
fxp0: <Intel 82558 Pro/100 Ethernet> port 0xdf80-0xdf9f mem 0xf6aff000-0xf6afffff,0xff900000-0xff9fffff irq 23 at device 11.0 on pci2
miibus0: <MII bus> on fxp0
inphy0: <i82555 10/100 media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0
inphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
fxp0: Ethernet address: 00:90:27:1b:5f:f7
fxp0: [ITHREAD]
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 31.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <Intel ICH2 UDMA100 controller> port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xffa0-0xffaf at device 31.1 on pci0
ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
ata0: [ITHREAD]
ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
ata1: [ITHREAD]
uhci0: <Intel 82801BA/BAM (ICH2) USB controller USB-A> port 0xef40-0xef5f irq 19 at device 31.2 on pci0
uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
uhci0: [ITHREAD]
usb0: <Intel 82801BA/BAM (ICH2) USB controller USB-A> on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: <Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1> on usb0
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
pci0: <serial bus, SMBus> at device 31.3 (no driver attached)
uhci1: <Intel 82801BA/BAM (ICH2) USB controller USB-B> port 0xef80-0xef9f irq 23 at device 31.4 on pci0
uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED]
uhci1: [ITHREAD]
usb1: <Intel 82801BA/BAM (ICH2) USB controller USB-B> on uhci1
usb1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1: <Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1> on usb1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 31.5 (no driver attached)
cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
p4tcc0: <CPU Frequency Thermal Control> on cpu0
acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
atkbd0: [ITHREAD]
fdc0: <floppy drive controller> port 0x3f0-0x3f1,0x3f2-0x3f3,0x3f4-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
fdc0: [FILTER]
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0
sio0: type 16550A
sio0: [FILTER]
sio1: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0
sio1: type 16550A
sio1: [FILTER]
pmtimer0 on isa0
orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff,0xc8000-0xc87ff pnpid ORM0000 on isa0
ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
ppc0: Generic chipset (EPP/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0
ppbus0: [ITHREAD]
plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
plip0: WARNING: using obsoleted IFF_NEEDSGIANT flag
lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
ppc0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
ppc0: [ITHREAD]
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
uhub2: <vendor 0x0424 product 0x0140, class 9/0, rev 1.10/0.00, addr 2> on uhub1
uhub2: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1595158208 Hz quality 800
Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
ad0: 38166MB <Seagate ST340014A 3.06> at ata0-master UDMA100
ad1: 238475MB <SAMSUNG SP2514N VF100-41> at ata0-slave UDMA100
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a

Rich Mahlerwein

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