From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 15 01:51:18 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1721F16A41C for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 01:51:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@dylangoss.com) Received: from server20.olicentral.com (server20.olicentral.com [216.121.191.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0E4043D48 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 01:51:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@dylangoss.com) Received: from [192.168.1.155] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server20.olicentral.com (8.11.7/8.11.7) with ESMTP id j5F1pDC04580 for ; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 18:51:13 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v730) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: FreeBSD questions From: "D. Goss" Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 18:51:15 -0700 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.730) Subject: odd disk activity X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 01:51:18 -0000 I've got a bit of a general question - sorry if this is vague. I recently ran some memory tests that were posted in the list earlier - they are bootable CD images. Each one hung in it's standard configuration and I put them aside until later to look into in more detail. In the meantime I've noticed that one of my hard drives can not be found on the SCSI bus... Normally with this test server the drives are as follows: da0s1 = 18GB U160 as boot volume with system and all data da1s1 = 36GB U320 emtpy da2s1 = 36GB U320 emtpy da3s1 = 36GB U320 emtpy da4s1 = 36GB U320 emtpy The four test drives have been mountable (up until now) - mount /dev/da1s1 /mnt/misc1 mount /dev/da2s1 /mnt/misc2 etc... but now I'm getting # mount /dev/da4d1 /mnt/misc4 mount: /dev/da4d1: No such file or directory I've tried rescanning the bus and trying again: camcontrol rescan all Re-scan of bus 0 was successful Re-scan of bus 1 was successful Yet the drive slice is still not mountable. I went into sysinstall to re-partition the drive and re-label it yet the drive does not show up there - I only see da0 - da3. Then I've noticed that there is a constant activity light (well, blinking constantly) for drive activity on my system (which is pretty much dormant) and the SCSI slot 3 is light up solid with activity (remember, this drive is empty). This activity light is on if da3s1 is mounted or not. I've tried swapping the physical drives in SCSI bay 3 and 4 and it is the same - 3 is lit up and 4 can't be mounted. ??? I'm feeling like there was some BIOS level setting damaged before but honestly I don't have a clue (can't you tell?) - I did check out the BIOS for good measure and reset it to default settings to no avail. Any insight into what I've screwed up is appreciated. Thanks - d.