5.3 on ultra2: scsi disk not detected

[Scott Long]

Michael G. Jung wrote:
> Apologies - this should have originated from a real email account....
> 
> I have had OpenBSD/NetBSD/Solaris on my Ultra2 and had no problems with 
> disk detection nor partitioning.  However, when I install 5.3 DA0 was 
> fine, DA1 was detected and I could partition it but when sysinstall went 
> to run newfs it complained that the partitions on DA1 did not exist.  If I 
> went back and looked at the partitions on DA1 it indeed looked as if it 
> had not been partitioned.  I finally gave up and simply installed to 
> DA0 and once FreeBSD 
> was up and running manually partioned DA1 and ran newfs etc....

This is more likely due to sysinstall bugs than anything else.

> 
> Other than this it has been very stable.  Just for reference here is my 
> system info:

My only other guess here is that the problem drives are violating the
SCSI spec or otherwise behaving in a way that upsets the driver.  A SCSI
trace would be best, but I know that's not possible for most people.
I'll give a shot over the weekend at enabling some diagnostics in the 
driver.

Scott