Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 21:03:05 -0500 (EST) From: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> To: "Donald J. O'Neill" <duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disappointed with version 6.0 Message-ID: <20060312020305.42757.qmail@web60025.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <200603111912.29485.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com>
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--- "Donald J. O'Neill" <duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> wrote: > On Saturday 11 March 2006 18:48, Peter wrote: > > > > You can answer me tomorrow if you like but here is an update: > > > > I removed the cdrom and the problem remains. I got the usb ports > to > > work as well by updating the bios and fiddling with some settings. > > It is truly a mystery why this 300 GB drive cannot talk to FreeBSD. > > Again, it is detected fine by the bios; it passes dos level > > diagnostics; it is on the same ide cable (as slave) as the 200 GB > > drive that is identical to it save for an extra 100 GB. My next > step > > is to boot with knoppix to see how it behaves. > > > > -- > > Peter > > > Hi Peter, > > I've recovered sufficiently enough that I can type without spending > all > my time correcting spelling errors that a spelling checker can't fix. > > OK, does dmesg still give this with the cdrom removed: > > ad0: DMA limited to UDMA33, device found non-ATA66 cable > ad0: 39205MB <Maxtor 6K040L0 NAR61HA0> at ata0-master UDMA33 > acd0: CDROM <GCR-8525B/1.02> at ata0-slave PIO4 > ad2: 190782MB <Seagate ST3200826A 3.03> at ata1-master UDMA100 > ad3: 286168MB <Seagate ST3300831A 3.03> at ata1-slave UDMA100 > Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a > > If the message for ad0 has changed, and it is now detected as an > ata100 > device and is running at UDMA100, you've solved part of your problem. dmesg now says: ad0: 39205MB <Maxtor 6K040L0 NAR61HA0> at ata0-master UDMA133 ad2: 190782MB <Seagate ST3200826A 3.03> at ata1-master UDMA100 ad3: 286168MB <Seagate ST3300831A 3.03> at ata1-slave UDMA100 So ad0's speed has increased by 100 MB/s? > Your system will access the boot drive at a higher speed. > > ad3 is still detected but you can't access it. So, I have to ask: > when > you set up the system, did you install a ufs system on it? Did you > carve it up using bsdlabel? Or, did you leave it alone because you > plane on using it for something else? This would be a reason for why > it > shows up on dmesg, but you can't access it. Yes, per install defaults ufs (and most probably soft updates) was used. Everything was done via the default sysinstall procedure. I said to use "entire drive" and then made one partition. It creates /dev/ad3s1d. I just entered sysinstall again to start fresh and during the format portion "Doing newfs" I hear some sounds I've never heard before on a hard drive. Like a mechanical arm is trying to move but it keeps bouncing back. Then I get: "Error mounting /dev/ad3s1d on /images : Input/output error" But if there was something mechanically wrong then my dos-level diagnostics would of picked it up (I had an disk excercise tool running on it for 20 minutes without any problems). > Now, you need to do something about the cdrom. It's kind of unhandy > to > be without one. That's why I asked if you really needed the 40GB > Maxtor > and if you did, suggested you get an ata controller card, then you > could use all three drives. And I also asked if you could just remove > that drive and use the two Seagates. I need all three drives: 1. system drive (40 GB) 2. client data backups (200 GB) 3. client data images (300 GB) The #3 drive (the problematic one) will actually be removed offsite once the (client hard drive) images have been stored. And this is where I might be able to weasel out of my current predicament. I can put back the cdrom afterwards. > I guess there's one other question: how did you get from 5.4 to 6.0, > and is it 6.0 or is it 6 STABLE? No, no. This is a brand new install of 6.0 (I can therefore mess around with impunity). When I mentioned "go back to 5.4" I did not mean to imply I upgraded. -- Peter __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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