From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 10 22:33:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 37C2014D86 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 22:33:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from geoff@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 66419 invoked by uid 268); 11 Aug 1999 05:31:47 -0000 Message-ID: <19990811053147.66418.qmail@rucus.ru.ac.za> Subject: Re: ATA - Trouble mounting secondary master In-Reply-To: <19990811010915.17486.rocketmail@web1001.mail.yahoo.com> from Brian McGroarty at "Aug 10, 1999 06:09:15 pm" To: brian@pobox.com Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 07:31:47 +0200 (SAST) Cc: sos@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Reply-To: "Geoff Rehmet" From: "Geoff Rehmet" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brian McGroarty writes : > In using the ATA driver, I'm unable to automatically mount a > partition on a master drive on the secondary controller. fsck > complains that device rwd2s1e isn't configured and exists. > Immediately mounting by hand works perfectly. > > Compiling the kernel with wd instead of ata eliminates the > problem. Hmm, I had exactly the same problem, although it manifested itself with a secondary master or slave. It went away a few weeks ago, and I was never able to make any sensible progress in tracking the problem down. It appears to occur when the partition table is read. Something times out, and the real partition table values are not read. The second time you read the disk, everything works. For a while, I had the line disklabel /dev/rad2s1a 2>&1 > /dev/null in my rc file :-). This was enough to kick the disk past the initial problem. (Not the right thing to do, but it allowed me to reboot without hitting single user mode.) Geoff. -- Geoff Rehmet, The Internet Solution geoffr@is.co.za; geoff@rucus.ru.ac.za; csgr@freebsd.org tel: +27-83-292-5800 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message