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Subject: Re: Mylex RAID to Asus Symbios SCSI Card
Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 14:36:27 -0400
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I guess the mounting guru's missed this one.. :)

Please help. :)

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Subject: Mylex RAID to Asus Symbios SCSI Card


> Hello,
>
> I am new to this situation, so please bare with me. :D
>
> Scenario:
>
> FreeBSD 4.3R
> Mylex SCSI/RAID controller w/ x2 Seagate ST318436LW's in RAID1
>
> Controller is removed and is no longer available. Replacement is an Asus
> Symbios SCSI
> card which appears to be run at SCSI-3 (40MB/s).
>
> Server was shutdown properly, original Mylex card was removed and Asus
card
> was
> inserted. So I knew the OS would yell at me for a totally different HD
> controller and
> will obviously not boot up fully, and is currently stuck at:
>
> Mounting root from ufs: /dev/mlxd0s1a
> No such device 'mlxd'
> Setrootbyname failed
> ffs_mountroot: can't find rootup
> Root mount failed: 6
>
> Mountroot>
>
> Now, the pause key is not working on the keyboard, but it appears as
though
> the SCSI
> card is seeing the drives OK and seems to be named as sym0. But, of course
> is stuck at
> what I typed above.
>
> So besides what few keystrokes (which I am baffed on, cause I don`t know
> this part of
> the OS) at this prompt, any other things I would need to do for the OS to
> boot up properly
> and run as if the Mylex card was back in, minus the RAID? :D
>
> Thank you for your help in advance. :D
>
> Dan
>
>
>
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