From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 20 20:12:30 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 20 20:12:28 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gw.Adl.USSR.net (digita1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.137.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BD0B37B402 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 20:12:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from dope (Dope.adl.ussr.net [203.38.181.6]) by gw.Adl.USSR.net (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id eBL4ClL28844 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:42:47 +1030 (CST) Reply-To: From: "james" To: Subject: Help please - Hard Drive Controller Problem - UDMA66 Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:42:27 +1030 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG HOwdy, I just got myself a UDMA66 controller for my P166, due to the onboard = hdd controller dying slowly but surely. I've plugged the card on, turned off the old controller, and then = attached the drives... The new controller sees the drives with no = problems (a 15 gig, and a 30 gig) But when I come to boot the machine up, it all goes normally - finds the = new controller card no problem; until it comes to mount the root = partition, where I get the following; [snip] ad4:14594MB [29691/16/63] at ata2-MASTER using DMA66 ad5:29188MB [59303/16/64] at ata2-SLAVE using DMA66 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a Root mount failed: 6 Mounting root from ufs:wd0s1a Root mount failed: 6 Mounting root from ufs:ws0a then it jumps to a "Manual root file system specification" program, and = gives me options there, and of course, I wouldn't have a clue what to = type for any of it THe above happens when I try in boot -s When I at the boot loader go to the command prompt, and do a lsdev, it = lists the drives as; disk1s1a: FFS 100 MB etc etc etc (I hope that I've included enough detail for someone to help me with my = problem- if I need to include more detail, please tell me ;-) - I would = like to fix/get this fixed) regards james To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message