Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:47:55 +0300 From: Nikos Ntarmos <ntarmos@ceid.upatras.gr> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: partitioning program does not see scsi disk Message-ID: <20070719174754.GA14288@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr> In-Reply-To: <20070719120010.GA43146@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20070719120010.GA43146@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk>
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Hi there. On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 01:00:11PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > so it should be supported by the ncr(4) driver. I could not see this > driver in modules or in kernel (why? should it appear somewhere?) so > I further loaded sym(4) module before booting: That was probably the right thing to do. In GENERIC v1.186.2.9 (the one on the 6.2-RELEASE branch[1]) ncr(4) is commented out, with sym(4)'s comment stating that it supports "NCR/Symbios Logic (newer chipsets + those of `ncr')" (although GENERIC has 'device sym', so it should already be in the kernel if it's GENERIC that's on the media...) > and I can see the disk detected correctly by sym during boot: [...] > but after that I cannot see the disk (this is a screen copy): This is usually caused by the disk not having a bsd disklabel, which is (also usually) corrected with a # disklabel -W da0; dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/rda0c bs=8k count=1 > Now, how do I do that? Do I actually need to remove the disk from > alpha and put in some other unix box? It's been years since I last installed FreeBSD/alpha but I seem to remember there was a shell fired up on VTY4 (and there is always the "Fixit" sysinstall(8) option that drops you to a shell). > The kernel config file must contain: > > options DEC_ST6600 > cpu EV5 > > I'm not sure how to do this before boot. These should already be in the kernel per [1]. Cheers... \n\n [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/sys/alpha/conf/Attic/GENERIC?rev=1.186.2.9;content-type=text%2Fplain;hideattic=0
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