From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 27 00:20:46 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1F9B16A4CE for ; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 00:20:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 771DE43D58 for ; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 00:20:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Received: from [192.168.254.11] (junior-wifi.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iAR0NsiV075572; Fri, 26 Nov 2004 17:23:55 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <41A7C87B.604@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 17:21:15 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040929 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Michael G. Jung" References: <9D7F0DF3FB16D41184010050DA90E0000181B881@neo.confluentasp.local> In-Reply-To: <9D7F0DF3FB16D41184010050DA90E0000181B881@neo.confluentasp.local> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=3.8 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on pooker.samsco.org cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3 on ultra2: scsi disk not detected X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 00:20:46 -0000 Michael G. Jung wrote: > Apologies - this should have originated from a real email account.... > > I have had OpenBSD/NetBSD/Solaris on my Ultra2 and had no problems with > disk detection nor partitioning. However, when I install 5.3 DA0 was > fine, DA1 was detected and I could partition it but when sysinstall went > to run newfs it complained that the partitions on DA1 did not exist. If I > went back and looked at the partitions on DA1 it indeed looked as if it > had not been partitioned. I finally gave up and simply installed to > DA0 and once FreeBSD > was up and running manually partioned DA1 and ran newfs etc.... This is more likely due to sysinstall bugs than anything else. > > Other than this it has been very stable. Just for reference here is my > system info: My only other guess here is that the problem drives are violating the SCSI spec or otherwise behaving in a way that upsets the driver. A SCSI trace would be best, but I know that's not possible for most people. I'll give a shot over the weekend at enabling some diagnostics in the driver. Scott