Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 13:39:16 +1200 From: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No drives detected with TX4000 Message-ID: <4435C2C4.4040804@paradise.net.nz> In-Reply-To: <4434757C.4080009@paradise.net.nz> References: <4434757C.4080009@paradise.net.nz>
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Mark Kirkwood wrote: > I swapped out a TX2000 for a TX4000 today, and naively thought that I'd > just be able to plug in the new card and reboot. Unfortunately, it does > not detect the 4 drives (Maxtor 6E040L0). > > Booting off the 6.0R install cd shows the card detected ok, and 6 ATA > channels - 2 on-board + 4 on-card. Running 'atacontrol list' from a > fixit shell lists the 4 channels with no drives attached. > > Is there anything special that needed for the TX4000, compared to the > TX2000? > A slight update on this, I tried out a gentoo installation - it sees the drives as scsi, whereas it saw the same ones as ata when attached to a TX2000 - so I'm wondering if these newer TX4000's have had a firmware change (as I *know* there are folks one this list that run the 4's....) Cheers Mark
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