(MORE INFO) Ext firewire drive not mounted after update

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Nov 13), Robert said:
> On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:01:47 -0800
> Robert <traveling08 at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> In the time honored FreeBSD tradition, I am replying to my own email. 
> 
> I booted with a 8.0RC2 livefs CD and the external disk shows up as
> /dev/da0, /das1, /das1d.  I then connected the external drive via USB and
> rebooted to the 8.0 Prerelease system.  The drive shows up and is able to
> mount.
> 
> It appears that some thing is amiss with the latest version. I will
> download the latest livefs iso and see if that works.

I think I remember seing a posting within the last few days saying that the
"sbp" device wan't going to be compiled into the 8.0-release kernel due to
it causing hangs on boot.  If you run "kldload sbp" as root after the system
has booted you should see your disk devices appear.

I can't find the list post mentioning it, but here's the svn commit log:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
r199112 | kensmith | 2009-11-09 15:39:42 -0600 (Mon, 09 Nov 2009) | 11 lines

Changed paths:
   M /stable/8/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC
   M /stable/8/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC
   M /stable/8/sys/ia64/conf/GENERIC
   M /stable/8/sys/powerpc/conf/GENERIC
   M /stable/8/sys/sparc64/conf/GENERIC

Comment out the sbp(4) entry for GENERIC config files that contain it. 
There are known issues with this driver that are beyond what can be fixed
for 8.0-RELEASE and the bugs can cause boot failure on some systems.  It's
not clear if it impacts all systems and there is interest in getting the
problem fixed so for now just comment it out instead of remove it.

Commit straight to stable/8, this is an 8.0-RELEASE issue.  Head was left
alone so work on it can continue there.

Reviewed by:    Primary misc. architecture maintainers (marcel, marius)


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	Dan Nelson
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