From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 7 9:28:50 2002 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 1413A37B401 for ; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 09:28:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4394043E4A for ; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 09:28:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mav@wastegate.net) Received: from wastegate.net (12-226-185-104.client.attbi.com[12.226.185.104]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02) with ESMTP id <2002120717284200200gddo0e>; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 17:28:42 +0000 Received: from MOTHER (mother.wg.local [192.168.1.5]) by wastegate.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1866348463; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 12:39:33 -0500 (EST) From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "Bill McMilleon" , "bill@mcmilleon.com" , "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 12:29:00 -0500 X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2657) For Windows 2000 (5.1.2600) In-Reply-To: <000601c29d65$85b080f0$6401a8c0@tp770z> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: can't open /dev/ad7s1e: Device not configured Message-Id: <20021207173933.1866348463@wastegate.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 14:24:39 -0600, Bill McMilleon wrote: > >I am not a FreeBSD expert by any means, but I amd getting this >unfortunate error with a Maxtor 160g ATA/133 drive I have hooked >up to a Promise Ultra 133 controller. The system was fine and >ran on FreeBSD 4.6.2 RELEASE, and I tried moving the controller and >drive over to another box after installing 4.7 RELEASE on it. > >I did nothing to the drive through software. > >I could not "see" the drive on the 4.7 system. > >I moved it back to the 4.6.2 box and this is the error I'm getting >and I'm dumped into the single-user shell. some might have already said this, but you need to do MAKEDEV the drive.. ie: cd /dev ./MAKEDEV ad7 you might have to do that for ad4 ad5 ad6 as well. and i believe the drive needs to be plugged in when you boot up. --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message