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Date:      Sat, 07 Dec 2002 12:29:00 -0500
From:      "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net>
To:        "Bill McMilleon" <billmcmilleon@insightbb.com>, "bill@mcmilleon.com" <bill@mcmilleon.com>, "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: can't open /dev/ad7s1e: Device not configured
Message-ID:  <20021207173933.1866348463@wastegate.net>
In-Reply-To: <000601c29d65$85b080f0$6401a8c0@tp770z>

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On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 14:24:39 -0600, Bill McMilleon wrote:

>
>I am not a FreeBSD expert by any means, but I amd getting this
>unfortunate error with a Maxtor 160g ATA/133 drive I have hooked
>up to a Promise Ultra 133 controller.  The system was fine and
>ran on FreeBSD 4.6.2 RELEASE, and I tried moving the controller and
>drive over to another box after installing 4.7 RELEASE on it.
>
>I did nothing to the drive through software.
>
>I could not "see" the drive on the 4.7 system.
>
>I moved it back to the 4.6.2 box and this is the error I'm getting
>and I'm dumped into the single-user shell.

some might have already said this, but you need to do MAKEDEV the
drive..

ie:

cd /dev

./MAKEDEV ad7

you might have to do that for ad4 ad5 ad6 as well.

and i believe the drive needs to be plugged in when you boot up.

---
doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net



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