From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 11 10:49:08 2004 Return-Path: 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 BC7EB16A4CE for ; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 10:49:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from gandelf.techiesalumni.com (mbjornson.dsl.visi.com [209.98.117.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF82143D46 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 10:49:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@techiesalumni.com) Received: from [10.0.0.9] (mac.techiesalumni.com [10.0.0.9]) by gandelf.techiesalumni.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AF51BDD4E; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 12:30:45 -0600 (CST) In-Reply-To: <200401111038.51350.kstewart@owt.com> References: <200401110045.42038.kstewart@owt.com> <63F93F8A-4453-11D8-9B5E-000A959C056E@techiesalumni.com> <200401111038.51350.kstewart@owt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v609) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Matt Bjornson Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 12:48:14 -0600 To: Kent Stewart X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.609) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: aic7xxx/FreeBSD/Linux can't find disk drives X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 18:49:08 -0000 Kent, Thanks again. I've spent the weekend trying to get this thing going... I know both scsi hosts are supported by FreeBSD and Linux, there aren't any IRQ conflicts between the devices.... I am perplexed. thanks again, Matt On Jan 11, 2004, at 12:38 PM, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Sunday 11 January 2004 08:29 am, Matt Bjornson wrote: >> Kent, >> >> Thanks, still nothing... you're right I forgot to change my email >> to /dev/da for FreeBSD (/dev/sda is Linux scsi drive) Any other >> ideas? I thought there might be some IRQ conflicts but there isn't >> when I look in kernel config before install... These aren't RAID >> so I thought it'd be a no brainer.... > > When you are running sysinstall, the fdisk option has always presented > me with the device name of the HDs I had connected to the scsi > adapter. It would be something like da0, da1, and etc., which you > would create the slices and partitions. > > I can't help beyond that because I don't have any systems with scsi > HDs on them. I could build a system with 2 - ata-133 80GB HDs on it > for what a good uw scsi adapter and HD would cost. > > Kent > > >> >> Thanks, >> >> Matt >> >> On Jan 11, 2004, at 2:45 AM, Kent Stewart wrote: >>> On Saturday 10 January 2004 09:06 pm, Matt Bjornson wrote: >>>> I have a Dell PowerEdge 2400 with dual 733 Mhx CPUs. I have >>>> tried to install several distros of Linux (Red Hat 9.0 and >>>> Gentoo 1.4) and FreeBSD 4.8, 5.0 and while I can get the kernels >>>> to recognize the Adaptec 7890 and the Adaptec 7880 and use my >>>> scsi CDROM, when I fdisk to try to create partitions, I receive >>>> a unable to find /dev/sda Thanks >>> >>> All of the scsi disks I ever had were refered to as /dev/da... >>> >>> Kent >>> >>> -- >>> Kent Stewart >>> Richland, WA >>> >>> http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > -- > Kent Stewart > Richland, WA > > http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"