Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 13:18:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark <redtick@sbcglobal.net> To: Dillin Smith <dilli.ns.mith@gmail.com> Cc: help help <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Hard drive detection Message-ID: <523309.8704.qm@web81208.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinHmEi7RL%2BatYQKUgVaYe9zuvjpjg@mail.gmail.com>
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand = ready to do violence on their behalf.=20 George Orwell --- On Thu, 5/12/11, Dillin Smith <dilli.ns.mith@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Dillin Smith <dilli.ns.mith@gmail.com> > Subject: Hard drive detection > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Thursday, May 12, 2011, 2:17 PM > Hi all, >=20 > =A0 I'm having an issue getting my installation of > FreeBSD to detect all the > drives in the system. It has 48 total, 46 2TB, and 2 250GB. > The system > consists of six controllers, with eight drives on each. The > two 250GB hard > drives are the first drives on controllers 0 and 1. >=20 > =A0 There are two of these machines with the exact same > configurations, having > the same problem. A very odd thing is that every time the > systems are > rebooted, the drives that go undetected vary. Also, when > the systems were > full of 250GB drives, all were detected. All drives are > detected in the BIOS > of the controllers, just not by FreeBSD. >=20 > Any and all help is greatly appreciated. > (output of dmesg attached) >=20 Look in the output from pciconf -lv | more Are all the controller cards listed?? If not then look to the controller d= river man page for hints to get them to play nice together.
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