From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 23 15:21: 3 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 23 15:21:01 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost01.reflexnet.net (mailhost01.reflexnet.net [64.6.192.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8542837B400 for ; Sat, 23 Dec 2000 15:21:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from rfx-64-6-211-149.users.reflexcom.com ([64.6.211.149]) by mailhost01.reflexnet.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Sat, 23 Dec 2000 15:19:08 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by rfx-64-6-211-149.users.reflexcom.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eBNNKjZ28030; Sat, 23 Dec 2000 15:20:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 15:20:45 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: james Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Assistance please! - with mounting the room partition Message-ID: <20001223152045.T96105@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from wabit@adl.ussr.net on Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 08:52:10AM +1030 Sender: cjc@rfx-64-6-211-149.users.reflexcom.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 08:52:10AM +1030, james wrote: > Howdy, > > My old Hdd controller died, so I replaced it with a udma one..... which has changed the drive from ad0 to ad4, after much stuffing around, I added ata-2 to the kernel,a nd recompiled, and have also added ad4 and ad5 to /dev - but I still get the following error on boot up; > > ad4:14594MB [29691/16/63] at ata2-MASTER using DMA66 > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad4s1a > swapon /dev/ad4s1b: No such file or directory > Automatic boot in progress > Can't stat /dev/ad4s1a: No such file or directory > Can't stat /dev/ad4s1a: No such file or directory > /dev/ad4s1a: CAN'T CHECK FILE SYSTEM > /dev/ad4s1a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTANCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. > > The dead controller is totally disabled in the motherboard bios.... > > The udma controller is a highpoint/hightech one... I have plugged the drive into other machines, where it identified as ad0, and boots normally (thats how I built the new kernel, and added /dev entries) > > the fstab points to ad4 for the mount points also... and I have searched the mailist list archive - thats how I found out that I should build ata2 ata3 into the kernel (and thats all I could find about my problem) > > Any help that anyone could provide would be gratefully received! Are you sure that you have all of the devices you need in /dev? $ ls -l /dev/*ad4* If you did, # cd /dev # ./MAKEDEV ad4 ad5 You would not get all the ones you need. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message