Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 22:30:09 +0100 From: Adriaan de Groot <adridg@cs.kun.nl> To: amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bootstrapping Message-ID: <200310312230.09619.adridg@cs.kun.nl> In-Reply-To: <200310312200.06633.adridg@cs.kun.nl> References: <200310272055.54288.adridg@cs.kun.nl> <20031028201317.GD50559@dragon.nuxi.com> <200310312200.06633.adridg@cs.kun.nl>
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On Friday 31 October 2003 22:00, Adriaan de Groot wrote: > I'm wondering about the promise fasttrack 378 RAID controller. I picked up > one (1) SATA drive, and stuck it to the promise connectors. While the > controller sees the drive on bootup, once the kernel boots (and reports > ata[234] on atapci1) there's no devices there to speak of. Is this a normal > phenomenon? A driver issue? Have I been a moron to think that a RAID > controller can also act like a plain ata bus? This was just me being foolish. The new slimmer cable doesn't obviate the need for a 4-pin molex power connector. Doing newfs on the drive, though, gets me a GPF panic, Stopped at getdirtybuf+0x2d: decl %eax. Guess it's NFS mount then for the sources.
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