Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 14:09:40 +0200 From: Axel Scheepers <axel@axel.truedestiny.net> To: richard childers <fscked@pacbell.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "/dev/nsa0: Device not configured" Message-ID: <20020519140939.J64761@mars.thuis> In-Reply-To: <3CE68E5C.7EBC1DDE@pacbell.net>; from fscked@pacbell.net on Sat, May 18, 2002 at 10:24:44AM -0700 References: <3CE676F4.64768D6F@pacbell.net> <3CE68E5C.7EBC1DDE@pacbell.net>
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On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 10:24:44AM -0700, richard childers wrote: > (2), I've noticed in the boot messages that the kernel sees the SCSI > controller (ahc0) but never does the "Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to > settle" thing, and never reports seeing the attached 8mm drive at ID #4. The So FreeBSD doesn't probe it right, no driver gets installed and hence you can't use /dev/nsa0 since there's nothing on it. > > This hardware works perfectly under FreeBSD 4.3 but not under 4.4 or 4.5; > and the error reported under 4.4 and 4.5 is identical. Very strange, the driver seems to be updated a lot since 4.3 you might take a look at the changes from that version to get a clue what's causing this. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/aic7xxx/ahc_pci.c It is that controller right? > > And now, I will go off and do a 'MAKEDEV'; and, you know, I think I *did* do > this, 'way back last week when I was first getting into this. > > But, really, if the /dev entries exist, and their major and minor numbers > are as coded in /dev/MAKEDEV (which is a shellscript) remaking them should > not effect anything. Indeed, since no driver gets loaded the existance of a device is totally irrelevant here. Your /dev/nsa0 does exist and is fine. There's just no driver loaded for your drive. Did you check if your tape drive was doing anything the moment it got probed? It might be still rewinding/initialising the tape or so, and that might cause the faulty probe too. > > > -- richard > Gr, -- Axel Scheepers UNIX System Administrator email: axel@axel.truedestiny.net a.scheepers@iae.nl http://axel.truedestiny.net/~axel ------------------------------------------ A new koan: If you have some ice cream, I will give it to you. If you have no ice cream, I will take it away from you. It is an ice cream koan. ------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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