From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 19 18:10:01 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE59F16A40A for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:10:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ntarmos@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr (poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr [150.140.141.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6640D13C4CA for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:10:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ntarmos@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from mail.ceid.upatras.gr (unknown [10.1.0.143]) by poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF1FAEB480A for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:47:55 +0300 (EEST) Received: from localhost (europa.ceid.upatras.gr [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB157158B43 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:47:55 +0300 (EEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ceid.upatras.gr Received: from mail.ceid.upatras.gr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (europa.ceid.upatras.gr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id G+sIGnWuXG4v for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:47:55 +0300 (EEST) Received: from localhost (csisgroup20.ceid.upatras.gr [150.140.143.234]) by mail.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95393158B3F for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:47:55 +0300 (EEST) Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:47:55 +0300 From: Nikos Ntarmos To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070719174754.GA14288@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr> References: <20070719120010.GA43146@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070719120010.GA43146@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk> Organization: NetCInS Lab., C.E.I.D., U. of Patras, Greece WWW-Homepage: http://ntarmos.dyndns.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9680 60A7 DE60 0298 B1F0 9B22 9BA2 7569 CF95 160A Office-Phone: +30-2610-996919 Office-Fax: +30-2610-969011 GPS-Info: 38.2594N, 21.7428E User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Subject: Re: partitioning program does not see scsi disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:10:02 -0000 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