Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 00:14:15 -0500 From: Zach Johnson <xopl@execpc.com> To: hornback@wireco.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA100 bus... can't find root fs Message-ID: <39978027.C9C5AB47@execpc.com> References: <008401c00594$98956480$d4776bce@challenger>
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Thanks for the response Andrew, I know there is Linux support for it, but its in the form of a Linux kernel patch... ?? I would have liked to install it while plugged into the ATA100 bus, but it said it couldn't find any harddisks... is there an easy way during the FreeBSD install to point the installation program to the disk on the ATA100 controller? I saw some kernel options for specifying the device where the root filesystem is. I'm going to try to play with that. It seems to me if FreeBSD can boot of the drive while on the ATA100 bus, all it would have to do is understand it needs to continue reading from the same device, but it tries to find the root filesystem on my primary and secondary ATA buses (ATA66). I wonder if I can do anything to make it recognize the ATA100 and it's disks properly... Thanks again, Zach Johnson -- SEND HELP! ;-) "Andrew C. Hornback" wrote: > HighPoint Technologies IDE controllers... bleh. I've had very bad luck > with these things in the past, but maybe I'm just not going about it the > right way. HPT-366 + ARCO DupliDisk hardware IDE RAID = major mistake... No > DOS driver for the HPT, ARCO's software doesn't work under Windows. When I > finally did get things to work, ARCO's software said it was gonna take > roughly 27 years to mirror one 40 Gig Maxtor to the other 40 Gig Maxtor in > the DupliDisk caddie. NOT acceptable. > > Aside from that point, here's a couple of ideas: > > 1. Maybe there's a driver for the controller for FreeBSD somewhere? I know > that they generally produce drivers for Linux, so there may be hope for a > specific driver out there. > > 2. If that doesn't work, why not try installing FreeBSD with the drive > connected to the ATA-100 controller? Crazy as it seems, that might actually > fix the problem. I know that Promise tells users that reformat a drive when > moving it from one controller to another to prevent compatiblity issues. > Maybe you're running into one of those issues here... > > --- Andy > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Zach Johnson > > Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2000 6:12 AM > > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: ATA100 bus... can't find root fs > > > > First of all, I use FreeBSD 4.1-Release... > > > > I've got a Highpoint Technologies HPT370 ATA66+ controller integrated > > into my ABIT KA7-100 motherboard. FreeBSD works perfectly when my > > harddrive is on my regular master IDE channel. When I put > > the drive on > > the ATA100 IDE bus, FreeBSD will boot but it can't find the root file > > system. What I find strange is that it seems to find this controller > > during the boot process. During boot the screen displays: > > > > atapci1 (High Point HPT366 ATA66 controller) port blah irq 11 > > at device > > 19.0 on pci0 > > ata2 at blah on atapci1 > > > > The system seems to have found what I'm looking for... but I can't (or > > don't know how) to get the manual root file system thingy to > > work. If I > > try "ufs:/dev/pci0" I get an error Fatal Trap 12, a page fault. I try > > ufs:/dev/ata2 and it says there are no devices ata (or atapci for that > > matter). From that boot prompt I can get the system to > > display even the > > FreeBSD file system off this drive on the ATA100 device with > > the command > > lsdev. However, with all of this said, I can't get FreeBSD to find > > root. > > > > Is there anything I can try?! Please help me! If you need more > > information I would be glad to supply it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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