From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 12 23:14:15 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 749D4106566C for ; Thu, 12 May 2011 23:14:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eivinde@terraplane.org) Received: from mail48.e.nsc.no (mail48.e.nsc.no [193.213.115.48]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B33918FC0C for ; Thu, 12 May 2011 23:14:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rumrunner.mine.nu (ti0027a380-0970.bb.online.no [80.212.66.204]) by mail48.nsc.no (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p4CMwLds008225 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 13 May 2011 00:58:22 +0200 (MEST) Received: from rumrunner.mine.nu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rumrunner.mine.nu (8.14.4/8.14.2) with ESMTP id p4CMwLbD079626; Fri, 13 May 2011 00:58:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from eivinde@terraplane.org) Received: from localhost (rumrunner@localhost) by rumrunner.mine.nu (8.14.4/8.13.8/Submit) with ESMTP id p4CMwLRF079623; Fri, 13 May 2011 00:58:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from eivinde@terraplane.org) X-Authentication-Warning: rumrunner.mine.nu: rumrunner owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 00:58:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Eivind E X-X-Sender: rumrunner@rumrunner.mine.nu To: Dillin Smith In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="248852462-514613219-1305241101=:79571" Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Hard drive detection X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: eivinde@terraplane.org List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 23:14:15 -0000 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --248852462-514613219-1305241101=:79571 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT 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. -- _ _ // \\// Eivind Evensen \/ --248852462-514613219-1305241101=:79571--