Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 00:58:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Eivind E <eivinde@terraplane.org> To: Dillin Smith <dillinsmith@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Hard drive detection Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1105130055520.79571@rumrunner.mine.nu> 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 Thu, 12 May 2011, 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)
When I had that problem (although on a much simpler machine), the
problem turned out to be the piece of junk graphics card I had put
in it just for the os install. It had stretched downwards with time
until it shorted some pins on the disk controller on side where
they were soldered.
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