From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 29 02:32:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA05790 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 02:32:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA05778 for ; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 02:32:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA15395; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 19:01:32 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id TAA26792; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 19:01:30 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980829190130.J17530@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 19:01:30 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel with > 2 IDE devices References: <199808280712.TAA10400@witch.xtra.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199808280712.TAA10400@witch.xtra.co.nz>; from Dan Langille on Fri, Aug 28, 1998 at 07:12:51PM +1200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 28 August 1998 at 19:12:51 +1200, Dan Langille wrote: > I have three IDE devices: 300 Mb disk, 5 Gb disk, CD-ROM. I have an IDE > card with two IDE connectors (one marked VLB, the other ISA). Huh? That doesn't sound much like disk connectors. > I'm trying to figure out what settings I should have in my kernel. > Do I have two controllers with devices on each? Or one controller > with all the devices under that? I suppose that's the question we should ask you. Typically, modern motherboards have two on-board controllers, each of which will handle a master and possibly also a slave. > I have the system working with the 5G disk and cd-rom. I'm trying to add > the 330 mb disk. Why? Because it's there. > > I'd tried adding wdc1 but the system wouldn't boot. Then I tried adding > wd1 under wcd0. That gave me two images of my 5Gb disk. Fascinating. > (for a rough idea of what I actually did, see the bottom of the > webpage: > > http://www.dvl-software.com/freebsd/upgrade227.htm Ah. You state "My IDE card will handle four devices". This can't be on one controller (see above). If you have two controllers, they'll be called wdc0 and wdc1. By default, the system will allocate IDs dynamically during probing; this is probably the best place to see what's going on. Could you excerpt the relevant parts of the output of dmesg, please? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message