Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 10:01:07 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: Joseph Koenig <joe@jwebmedia.com> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Serious Problems with PERC3 Dual Channel and FreeBSD 4.3 Message-ID: <20010816100107.A1568@hollin.btc.adaptec.com> In-Reply-To: <3B7BDA4D.859C050F@jwebmedia.com> References: <3B7BDA4D.859C050F@jwebmedia.com>
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This is very strange. Is it possible to send me the dmesg output? If not, can you page back the console and see of the card and container are being detected? I'll look into it in the mean time. Scott On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 09:35:58AM -0500, Joseph Koenig wrote: > Let me first say I have posted this question on Newbies and Questions > and no one has been able to help yet and suggested I try the SCSI list. > Here's what's going on. I've got a Dell PowerEdge 2500 1GHz, 1GB RAM, > 3x18GB U160 SCSI Drives in RAID 5 with the PERC3 Dual Channel controller > - 128MB Write Cache. There is 1 container set up on the drives that is > about 34GB. It is detected at "aacd0". Installation goes just fine, but > when I try to reboot, I get the following message: > > -------------------------------------------- > no devsw (majdev=0 bootdev=0xa0200000) > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/aacd0s1a > no such device 'aacd' > setrootbyname failed > ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp > Root mount failed: 6 > > Manual root filesystem specification: > <fstype>:<device> Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype> > eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a > ? List valid disk boot devices > <empty line> Abort manual input > ------------------------------------------- > > I have been unable to get past this point in any way. The last thing I > tried was to install via FTP from releng4.FreeBSD.org - I grabbed the > snapshot from yesterday and still have the same problem. I've also tried > just using the regular MBR as opposed to the Boot Manager, as someone > suggested. I've been scrounging books and the net for the past week and > have been unable to get anywhere with this. Any help would be much > appreciated. I'm willing to try anything. Thanks, > > Joe > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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