Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 19:21:27 -0700 From: Nicholas Jackson <m8905186@ncafe.com> To: rchopra@cal.berkeley.edu, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding A Hard Drive Using A PCI Controller Message-ID: <41426127.3040008@ncafe.com> In-Reply-To: <20040910205224.70520.qmail@web52105.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040910205224.70520.qmail@web52105.mail.yahoo.com>
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It sounds like it might be an out-of-date firmware problem to me. Check the web sites for both the Promise controller and your motherboard and make sure you have flashed your hardware with the most recent updates if more recent ones are available. Those new, large IDE drives require 48 bit support in the controller and it probably wouldn't hurt to check that your computer's BIOS is as recent as possible as well. Of course, it could be something else, (cables?) but I've had similar problems that were cured instantly and painlessly by updated firmware. -Nick Rishi Chopra wrote: > --- Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> wrote: > > >>On Thursday 09 September 2004 16:58, Rishi Chopra >>wrote: >> >>>I just installed FreeBSD 5.2 on an old Dell >> >>(Pentium >> >>>120). The box has an ide controller onboard as >> >>well >> >>>as a Promise Ultra100 TX2 PCI controller card. >>>There's a 4GB hard drive attatched to the onboard >>>controller used for all of the system files (e.g. >> >>/, >> >>>/var, /tmp, and /usr) and a 200GB hard drive >> >>attached >> >>>to the PCI card with one giant 200GB FAT32 >> >>partition >> >>>for data. >>> >>>The PCI card is recognized during boot (the card's >>>BIOS loads during bootup and a quick 'dmesg' shows >> >>a >> >>>atapci1 entry), but I don't see any entries for >> >>the >> >>>drive under /dev (e.g. there's no /dev/ad1* >>>partitions). I checked that the drive and >> >>controller >> >>>are working, since another computer with a win2k >>>installation seems them just fine. The onboard >>>controller and attached system drive seem to work >> >>just >> >>>fine. >>> >>>Can anyone suggest why the PCI controller is >>>recognized but the drive attached to it isn't? >> >>What >> >>>should I do so that the drive is recognized? >>> >>>===== >>>Rishi Chopra >>>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra >> >>The drive on the PCI adapter should show up as >>ad4*** >>Don't know if that fixes your problem or not. >> >>-- >>Thanks, >> >>Josh Paetzel >> >> > > > Unfortunately it doesn't; I checked the /dev directory > and there are no listings for anything other than ad0. > The installation program presents me with the options > of using ad0 (the 4GB drive) and fd0 (zip drive). The > kernel doesn't seem to recognize/load the 200GB drive! > > I verified that the drive can be seen from DOS by > lodaing Ghost and Partition Magic; both programs are > able to see the drive just fine. The kernel > documentation says that ad* are allocated dynamically > on bootup, so I don't think there needs to be an entry > in the kernel conf file, thought I might be > mistaken... > > Anyone have any ideas on what the problem might be? > > ===== > Rishi Chopra > http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra >
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