From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue May 1 7:20: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from umx-mail01.missouri.edu (umx-mail01.missouri.edu [128.206.10.221]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AEC237B423 for ; Tue, 1 May 2001 07:19:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jws506@mizzou.edu) Received: by umx-mail01 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <2YLD7VAR>; Tue, 1 May 2001 09:19:55 -0500 Message-ID: From: "Sommer, Joel Wesley (UMC-Student)" To: "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" Subject: "No disks found!" in sysinstall Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 09:19:55 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've just recently brought a FreeBSD install online. Everything is working fine, but now I want to add an additional SCSI disk to my file system. I've been trying to follow the procedures outlined in section 10.5 of the FreeBSD Handbook. Here are my attempts and results: When I try running sysinstall, I go "Configure" and then "Fdisk". After selecting "Fdisk", the following message appears: No disks found! Please verify that your disk controller is being properly probed at boot time. See the Hardware Guide on the Documentation menu for clues on diagnosing this type of problem. I know that the drive in question is detected at boot because the kernel displays information about the disk whenever the system is coming up. When I try running "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rda1 bs=1k count=1", I receive the message "dd: /dev/rda1: Operation not permitted". I thought that maybe I should replace rda1 with da1 because my drive is /dev/da1. When trying to run "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 bs=1k count=1" I get the message "dd: /dev/da1: Operation not permitted". If you go to section 10.5.2.2 in the Handbook and then follow either of the two command sequences I get the same results. I also noticed that in the Handbook the commands used use both rda1 and da1. Is that normal? I don't understand why you would use two different device names? As I understood it, the prefix r- is for removable media. Am I wrong? The following is an excerpt from the /var/log/dmesg.today file: ad0: 515MB [1048/16/63] at ata0-master PIO3 ad1: 1549MB [3148/16/63] at ata0-slave WDMA2 ad2: 4112MB [8912/15/63] at ata1-master WDMA2 Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15), Tagged Queueing Enabled da0: 1034MB (2118144 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 131C) da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 da1: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da1: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15), Tagged Queueing Enabled da1: 1034MB (2118144 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 131C) And, yes, I was running sysinstall and the dd commands as root. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message