From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Aug 16 7:29: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from email.accessus.net (email.accessus.net [209.145.128.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E4B837B40C for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 07:28:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@jwebmedia.com) Received: from [209.145.133.59] (account jkoenig@accessus.net HELO jwebmedia.com) by email.accessus.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.4.8) with ESMTP id 13703536 for freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 09:28:56 -0500 Message-ID: <3B7BDA4D.859C050F@jwebmedia.com> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 09:35:58 -0500 From: Joseph Koenig Reply-To: joe@jwebmedia.com Organization: jWeb New Media Design X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Serious Problems with PERC3 Dual Channel and FreeBSD 4.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Let me first say I have posted this question on Newbies and Questions and no one has been able to help yet and suggested I try the SCSI list. Here's what's going on. I've got a Dell PowerEdge 2500 1GHz, 1GB RAM, 3x18GB U160 SCSI Drives in RAID 5 with the PERC3 Dual Channel controller - 128MB Write Cache. There is 1 container set up on the drives that is about 34GB. It is detected at "aacd0". Installation goes just fine, but when I try to reboot, I get the following message: -------------------------------------------- no devsw (majdev=0 bootdev=0xa0200000) Mounting root from ufs:/dev/aacd0s1a no such device 'aacd' setrootbyname failed ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp Root mount failed: 6 Manual root filesystem specification: : Mount using filesystem eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a ? List valid disk boot devices Abort manual input ------------------------------------------- I have been unable to get past this point in any way. The last thing I tried was to install via FTP from releng4.FreeBSD.org - I grabbed the snapshot from yesterday and still have the same problem. I've also tried just using the regular MBR as opposed to the Boot Manager, as someone suggested. I've been scrounging books and the net for the past week and have been unable to get anywhere with this. Any help would be much appreciated. I'm willing to try anything. Thanks, Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message