From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 13 02:42:46 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EEF637B407 for ; Tue, 13 May 2003 02:42:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bebop.inter-sonic.com (bebop.inter-sonic.com [212.247.185.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C2F843FAF for ; Tue, 13 May 2003 02:42:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peo@intersonic.se) Message-ID: <3EC0BE0F.80804@intersonic.se> Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 11:42:39 +0200 From: "Per olof Ljungmark" Organization: Intersonic AB User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Aaron D. Gifford" References: <3EC04258.3040702@infowest.com> In-Reply-To: <3EC04258.3040702@infowest.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-102.8 required=5.2 tests=IN_REP_TO,NOSPAM_INC,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA, USER_IN_WHITELIST,X_ACCEPT_LANG version=2.44 X-Spam-Level: X-Sanitizer: bebop mail filter cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sym: where did my drives go? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: peo@intersonic.se List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 09:42:47 -0000 Aaron D. Gifford wrote: > Per olof Ljungmark (peo@intersonic.se) said: >> I'm assembling a Compaq 1850R with attached storage system. For the >> built in scsi controller, there are three drives internally on channel >> 1 + 5 drives externally on channel 2. >> During boot, I can see all disks being identified first by the machine >> itself and then in the early part of the process, by the kernel >> (something scrolls by talking about BIOS drive numbering). >> >> However, the result is not 8 drives but 5 in total in a mix between >> the channels, see below. >> > > > We ran into a perhaps similar problem with 4.8-RELEASE and 4.8-STABLE > when we attempted to upgrade an old Compaq Proliant machine on Friday. > Under 4.7, the sym driver would see all 5 SCSI drives. But after a > CVSupdate and build/install of world and reboot, the machine failed to > boot because the first drive, the root drive, was no longer visible to > the kernel. The FreeBSD boot loader could still see the drive, but the > kernel would never detect it. > > At first we couldn't figure out what was going wrong. After some hours > including an attempt to install 4.8-RELEASE on another drive that also > failed because of the disappearing drive problem, we reinstalled > 4.7-RELEASE and have been running RELENG_4_7 since. I think our old > system uses the NCR 875 chipset. > > Anyone know what changes between 4.7 and 4.8 to sym might be responsible > for the disappearing drive trick? Just to confirm: We installed 4.7-RELEASE on same machine and all drives are identified correctly. Perhaps one should starrt a thread in -STABLE... Per olof