From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 21 12:13:32 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 21 12:13:30 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 6849737B400 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 12:13:27 -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 eBLKDlL00246; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 06:43:48 +1030 (CST) Reply-To: From: "james" To: "Alessandro de Manzano" Cc: Subject: RE: Help please - Hard Drive Controller Problem - UDMA66 - Mounting problems now too Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 06:43:20 +1030 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 In-Reply-To: <20001221150353.D1562@libero.sunshine.ale> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Howdy, Thanks for your response..... I've definately turned the other = controller off, and using the fixit disk, and vi, have managed to change = the /etc/fstab file..... to ad4 etc, instead of what itused to be (ad0) But now when attempting to boot up, 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/ad4s1a swapon /dev/ad4s1b: No such file or directory Automatic boot in progress Can't stat /dev/ad4s1a: No such file or directory Can't stat /dev/ad4s1a: No such file or directory /dev/ad4s1a: CAN'T CHECK FILE SYSTEM /dev/ad4s1a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTANCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. Automatic file system check failed... help! Then it goes to select a prompt, etc... press enter for sh at /bin/sh, = etc I imagine the 'no such file or directory' errors are the major problem - = and unfortunately one that I have no idea how to fix - at this stage, if = I try to mount the partitions to their right places, I get the same = error.... mount -a mount: No such file or directory mount: No such file or directory mount: No such file or directory -> -----Original Message----- -> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG -> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Alessandro = de -> Manzano -> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 12:34 AM -> To: james -> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG -> Subject: Re: Help please - Hard Drive Controller Problem - UDMA66 ->=20 ->=20 ->=20 -> > [snip] -> > ad4:14594MB [29691/16/63] at ata2-MASTER using DMA66 -> > ad5:29188MB [59303/16/64] at ata2-SLAVE using DMA66 ->=20 -> Are you sure you disabled the old controller ? -> I see "ata2-xxxx" above, I think it should be "ata0" and/or "ata1". ->=20 -> check all the booting messages for similar messages about ata0/1 ->=20 ->=20 -> Just my $0.0001 :-) ->=20 ->=20 -> --=20 ->=20 -> bye! ->=20 -> Ale ->=20 -> aledema@iol.it ->=20 ->=20 ->=20 -> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org -> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message