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Date:      Sun, 28 Dec 2003 08:51:42 -0500
From:      "Kevin A. Pieckiel" <pieckiel+freebsd-hackers@sdf.lonestar.org>
To:        Soren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.1 -> 5.2 upgrade, Promise FastTrak device /dev/ar0 missing?
Message-ID:  <20031228135142.GA12261@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG>
In-Reply-To: <200312270953.hBR9rv9V028892@spider.deepcore.dk>
References:  <20031227073409.GA1328@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> <200312270953.hBR9rv9V028892@spider.deepcore.dk>

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On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 10:53:57AM +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote:
> It seems Kevin A. Pieckiel wrote:
> > I have a Promise FastTrak SATA150 controller with two 120 GB drives
> > that are mirrored.  Using 5.1-RELEASE-p10 with sources from Nov 3.
> > 
> > I tried to upgrade from 5.1 to 5.2-RC today and the new kernel couldn't
> > mount my root partition (/dev/ar0s1a) after doing make installkernel
> > and rebooting into single user mode.  Browsing through the console
> > messages shows the individual drives (/dev/ad4 and /dev/ad6), but no
> > /dev/ar0.  The /dev/ar0 device shows up on the 5.1 kernel.  What did I
> > do wrong?  I'm using the same kernel config file (except for chaning
> > "options apicio" to "device apic") and followed the usual procedure
> > of make buildworld, make buildkernel, make installkernel reboot to
> > single user mode, etc.
> > 
> > The 5.1 kernel was CVSed on 3 Nov in the RELENG_5_1 tag and the 5.2-RC
> > was from RELENG_5_2 CVSed 24 Dec.
> > 
> > Included is my dmesg output from the 5.1 kernel and my kernel config
> > file SAMSON for the 5.1 kernel.  Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> You need "device ataraid" in your config file..

Thanks.  That worked great.  For some reason I missed this bit...  I
thought this functionallity was picked up by the ata driver when it
recognized the card.

Kevin



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