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Date:      Sat, 28 May 2005 21:29:56 -0700
From:      Vizion <vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com>
To:        "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net>
Cc:        Ulf Magnusson <ulfma629@student.liu.se>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Seagate HD not detected by FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <200505282129.57084.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1E2D4641-42B0-4A68-BF0C-C1327087C04C@shire.net>
References:  <b1fdfb4987.b4987b1fdf@liu.se> <1E2D4641-42B0-4A68-BF0C-C1327087C04C@shire.net>

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On Saturday 28 May 2005 21:09,  the author Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC 
contributed to the dialogue on Re: Seagate HD not detected by FreeBSD:
>On May 28, 2005, at 7:31 PM, Ulf Magnusson wrote (quote Dave):
>>> OK your drive is recognized as at1
>>> Here is the page from the handbook on www.freebsd.org - if you
>>> follow the
>>> instructions you should be OK:
>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> -------------------
>>> 16.3 Adding Disks
>>> Originally contributed by David O'Brien.
>>>
>>> Lets say we want to add a new SCSI disk to a machine that currently
>>> .......
>>
>> Excuse me if I'm being slow, but exactly where did you glean that
>> information?
>> I don't have any at1 node in /dev, at1 isn't mentioned anywhere in the
>> boot messages, and Fdisk still acts like it only knows of one drive.
>
>He is wrong.
I agree
>
>It appears he misread the second ATA bus ata1 as a drive.
>
true
Change that drive to master on the second bus as Kent suggested and then 
follow the instructions in the handbook
David


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