Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 21:25:01 +0100 From: Mark Blackman <mark@exonetric.com> To: Dillin Smith <dillinsmith@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hard drive detection Message-ID: <6FDABC4F-6F50-4AC7-8469-A96D2F8ED301@exonetric.com> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=rJvLFUbL3gOH%2BeH1wE3xgQF637Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <BANLkTi=7QO8p--mfCvugptxCcugRozTKTQ@mail.gmail.com> <BANLkTi=rJvLFUbL3gOH%2BeH1wE3xgQF637Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On 12 May 2011, at 20:34, Dillin Smith wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm having an issue getting my installation of FreeBSD to detect all > the drives in the system. It has 48 total, 46 2TB, and 2 250GB. The > system consists of six controllers, with eight drives on each. The two > 250GB hard drives are the first drives on controllers 0 and 1. > > There are two of these machines with the exact same configurations, > having the same problem. A very odd thing is that every time the > systems are rebooted, the drives that go undetected vary. Also, when > the systems were full of 250GB drives, all were detected. All drives > are detected in the BIOS of the controllers, just not by FreeBSD. > Any and all help is greatly appreciated. > (output of dmesg attached) Power problems (i.e. under-rated PSU)? Staggered spin-up means they're not all coming up quickly enough? With a rig as complex as that, I'd boot up another OS, like Linux or Windows and see if they can see all the drives. - Mark
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