From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 21 13:25:16 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 21 13:25:14 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from libero.sunshine.ale (ppp-246-115.33-151.iol.it [151.33.115.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52FCB37B400 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 13:25:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by libero.sunshine.ale (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 74D655E6A; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 22:25:02 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 22:25:02 +0100 From: Alessandro de Manzano To: james Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help please - Hard Drive Controller Problem - UDMA66 - Mounting problems now too Message-ID: <20001221222502.A348@libero.sunshine.ale> Reply-To: Alessandro de Manzano References: <20001221150353.D1562@libero.sunshine.ale> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from wabit@adl.ussr.net on Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 06:43:20AM +1030 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE Sender: aledema@iol.it Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Thanks for your response..... I've definately turned the other controller off, and using the fixit disk, and vi, have managed to change the /etc/fstab file..... to ad4 etc, instead of what itused to be (ad0) Mmm.. FreeBSD apparently still see the Promise controller as ATA2/3, so maybe the I/O address of it should be changed as ATA0/1 ? Does the Promise have a user accessible BIOS, like many SCSI controllers ? Something like pressing ctrl-a or similar during the POST boot phase ? if yes, maybe you could check into it if the settings are correct for use as primary and secondary ATA controllers. Just a tought :-) > I imagine the 'no such file or directory' errors are the major problem - and unfortunately one that I have no idea how to fix - at this stage, if I try to mount the partitions to their right places, I get the same error.... Maybe you had to create the approriate device nodes in your /dev dir. I've just checked into mine (4.2-stable) and I've only upto "ad3xxxx", nothing with "ad4xxxx" and so on. try something like, as root, "cd /etc && sh ./MAKEDEV ad4 ad5" and then check with "ls -l /dev/ad4*" Just another few Euro-cents :-)) -- bye! Ale demanzano@iol.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message