From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 18 20:07:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 712EE16A407 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:07:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mistry.7@osu.edu) Received: from mail.united-ware.com (am-productions.biz [69.61.164.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A44CE43D45 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:07:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mistry.7@osu.edu) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (am-productions.biz [69.61.164.22]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.united-ware.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k3IKNiF7049884 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:23:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mistry.7@osu.edu) From: Anish Mistry To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:07:12 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060415153418.M52372@bmyster.com> In-Reply-To: <20060415153418.M52372@bmyster.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1994081.3mpXZrLSf7"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200604181607.20430.mistry.7@osu.edu> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.5 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_50, MYFREEBSD2 autolearn=failed version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on mail.united-ware.com X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.1/1405/Tue Apr 18 14:30:25 2006 on mail.united-ware.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Carl Foote Subject: Re: IDE tape drive stt3401a X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:07:13 -0000 --nextPart1994081.3mpXZrLSf7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 15 April 2006 11:42, Carl Foote wrote: > I just converted a windows server over to Freebsd 5.4 stable. The > stt3401a tape drive that was in server was working fine. The tape > drive posts in the BIOS but when freebsd boots up, it will not > detect the drive. Documentation for the drive does state it cannot > be on the same controller as a hard drive, which I verified. So, > on its own controller (secondary) as master, the OS still will not > detect the drive when system boots. I have tried all possibilities > of appropiate jumper settings to no avail. The best I can get out > of the drive is when the OS loads I get a "ata1-slave: FAILURE - > ATAPI_IDENTIFY timed out". I get the message three times the os > loads and no drive. > > I know freebsd is doing /dev differently than in the past. It > loads /dev dynamically on boot, so it is not loaded with all the > device files, just the ones it detects. Is there a way to force > the dev file to load. > > ANY suggestions would be appreciated. This won't help you, but I was in a similar situation when I upgraded=20 from 5.3 to 5.4. My ast tape drive disappeared. Unfortunately I=20 couldn't spend the time to debug the problem so just downgraded to=20 5.3 and it appeared again. =2D-=20 Anish Mistry --nextPart1994081.3mpXZrLSf7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBERUb4xqA5ziudZT0RAkIpAJ0ciFlf281EaIc3VJespiVxz1h7PgCfcDa+ ZCsf25aZwUVBInpVZ5IVfCE= =9IxE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1994081.3mpXZrLSf7--