From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 21 16:49:17 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 21 16:49:13 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gw.Adl.USSR.net (digita1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.137.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CC8737B400 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:49:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from dope (Dope.adl.ussr.net [203.38.181.6]) by gw.Adl.USSR.net (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id eBM0nWL00703; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 11:19:32 +1030 (CST) Reply-To: From: "james" To: "Alessandro de Manzano" Cc: Subject: RE: Help please - Hard Drive Controller Problem - UDMA66 - Mounting problems now too Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 11:19:02 +1030 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20001221222502.A348@libero.sunshine.ale> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Howdy, I've booted it up with the install floppied, and then put the fixit disk = in, so that I can mount the drive in /mnt, I then go to /mnt/dev/ and = type ./MAKEDEV ad4 ad5, and get told that its not R/W. I try to mount = it R/W but get told that its not clean, and to run fsck to clean it but fsck can't run, because it can't find the entries (I imagine in the = /dev directory) So I'm in a catch 22 here, I can't fix them to mount them to add the = /dev/ entries so that it can mount to change them... so I have no idea = how to fix :-( any assistance would be gratefully received -> -----Original Message----- -> From: aledema@iol.it [mailto:aledema@iol.it]On Behalf Of Alessandro = de -> Manzano -> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 7:55 AM -> To: james -> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG -> Subject: Re: Help please - Hard Drive Controller Problem - UDMA66 - -> Mounting problems now too ->=20 ->=20 -> > Thanks for your response..... I've definately turned the other=20 -> controller off, and using the fixit disk, and vi, have managed=20 -> to change the /etc/fstab file..... to ad4 etc, instead of what=20 -> itused to be (ad0) ->=20 -> Mmm.. FreeBSD apparently still see the Promise controller as=20 -> 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=20 -> controllers ? -> Something like pressing ctrl-a or similar during the POST boot phase = ? ->=20 -> if yes, maybe you could check into it if the settings are=20 -> correct for use as primary and secondary ATA controllers. -> Just a tought :-) ->=20 ->=20 -> > I imagine the 'no such file or directory' errors are the major=20 -> problem - and unfortunately one that I have no idea how to fix -=20 -> at this stage, if I try to mount the partitions to their right=20 -> places, I get the same error.... ->=20 -> 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=20 -> "ad3xxxx", nothing with "ad4xxxx" and so on. -> try something like, as root, "cd /etc && sh ./MAKEDEV ad4 ad5"=20 -> and then check with "ls -l /dev/ad4*" ->=20 ->=20 -> Just another few Euro-cents :-)) ->=20 ->=20 -> --=20 ->=20 -> bye! ->=20 -> Ale ->=20 -> demanzano@iol.it ->=20 ->=20 ->=20 -> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org -> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message