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Date:      Mon, 26 Oct 1998 14:23:38 -0800 (PST)
From:      Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@internetcds.com>
To:        Jeff Gray <jwg@cm110119.cableco-op.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: scsi drive install problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.95.981026142157.5181Z-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <19981026141223.02257@cm110119.cableco-op.com>

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Ah, the joys of freeBSD's lack of nailed-up SCSI devices by default.

What most likely has happened is:

Your old devices were most likely sd0 and sd1.

You added 2 new drives, so sd1 became sd3.

You probably didn't update your fstab to show this change, so FreeBSD is
now accessing one of your quantums, andc an't find a valid FS on it.

Easy fix is to boot -s, edit your fstab, and change sd1's to sd3's.

Of course, YMMV.

On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Jeff Gray wrote:

> After installing new drives we cannot reboot, Version 2.2.6
> 
>  The server is a Pentium Pro with an adaptec 2940
> controller.  SCSI drive O is the boot drive and SCSI 1 is a data drive.
> SCSI 6 is a RAID device.  The two drives we are installing are Quantum
> Viking II.  After setting their SCSI addresses to 2 and 3 and rebooting
> the adaptec controller BIOS recognizes the new drives but FreeBSD complains
> about the filesystem and refuses to boot up. The Quantum drives are self
> terminating.
> 
> At boot all we can do is enter the sh shell.  The only file system mounted
> is /     The data drive and raid drives do not mount.
> 
> After taking the two new drives off the chain all boots normally and the
> server is it usual wonderful self.
> 
> Thoughts?
> Thanks
> Jeff
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