From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 21 07:28:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA00559 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 07:28:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from goliath.camtech.net.au (goliath.camtech.net.au [203.5.73.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA00554 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 07:28:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thyerm@camtech.net.au) Received: from camtech.net.au (dialup-ad-4-06.camtech.net.au [203.28.0.134]) by goliath.camtech.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.2) with ESMTP id XAA07897; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 23:57:32 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <35B4A583.E3F1E64F@camtech.net.au> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 23:58:19 +0930 From: Matthew Thyer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD CURRENT , Julian Elischer Subject: DEVFS not creating slice devices for my SCSI disks Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At CTM src-cur 3429 my system works fine but with kernels of src-cur 3457 and 346? (whatever it is we're currently up to - about 8 hours ago) DEVFS no longer has devices for the slices of my SCSI disks. All I see in /dev for the SCSI disks is: /dev/sd1, /dev/sd3 and /dev/sd4 (I have three disks wired down to their SCSI id's). These are old 1.3 and 1.8 GB disks (Seagates I think) which are connected to an adaptec 1542B controller. The disks in question have a single 'a' slice covering the whole disk and have filesystems that were created with either newfs -m 0 OR newfs -m 1 (I dont recall which right now). Maybe the problem started after raw devices went away ? All kernels have SLICE and DEVFS in them. Any idea whats up ? Unfortunately all source and my home directories are on these SCSI disks so I'm having to run with my 3429 kernel even though I've done two make worlds since. Sorry I cant provide more details but the system is remote (currently) and it hasn't come back from a boot on the newest kernel (as it couldn't fsck the filesystems of course!) -- /=====================================================================\ |Work: Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au | Home: thyerm@camtech.net.au| \=====================================================================/ "If it is true that our Universe has a zero net value for all conserved quantities, then it may simply be a fluctuation of the vacuum of some larger space in which our Universe is imbedded. In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time." E. P. Tryon from "Nature" Vol.246 Dec.14, 1973 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message