Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 17:21:15 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: "Michael G. Jung" <mikej@confluenttech.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3 on ultra2: scsi disk not detected Message-ID: <41A7C87B.604@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <9D7F0DF3FB16D41184010050DA90E0000181B881@neo.confluentasp.local> References: <9D7F0DF3FB16D41184010050DA90E0000181B881@neo.confluentasp.local>
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Michael G. Jung wrote: > Apologies - this should have originated from a real email account.... > > I have had OpenBSD/NetBSD/Solaris on my Ultra2 and had no problems with > disk detection nor partitioning. However, when I install 5.3 DA0 was > fine, DA1 was detected and I could partition it but when sysinstall went > to run newfs it complained that the partitions on DA1 did not exist. If I > went back and looked at the partitions on DA1 it indeed looked as if it > had not been partitioned. I finally gave up and simply installed to > DA0 and once FreeBSD > was up and running manually partioned DA1 and ran newfs etc.... This is more likely due to sysinstall bugs than anything else. > > Other than this it has been very stable. Just for reference here is my > system info: My only other guess here is that the problem drives are violating the SCSI spec or otherwise behaving in a way that upsets the driver. A SCSI trace would be best, but I know that's not possible for most people. I'll give a shot over the weekend at enabling some diagnostics in the driver. Scott
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