From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 20 16:13:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (wwweasel.geeksrus.net [64.67.200.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBE8A37B417 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 16:13:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (from alane@localhost) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBL0B3d64292 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 19:11:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from alane) Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 19:11:03 -0500 From: Alan Eldridge To: FreeBSD Stable List Subject: Re: Promise ultra100 Message-ID: <20011221001103.GA64116@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.2i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Oh dear, you're in for some fun. >What's probably happened here is that the disk that used to be on ad0 >is now ad4 (I imagine this is why disabling your onboard controller worked, >Scott). >This is going to let you in for a whole world of pain, including not being >to remount partitions because the devices don't exist, and not being able to >create the devices because you can't remount the partitions read-write. Hmm. I installed 4.4-RELEASE on my system with a Maxtor ATA-100 card (it's got a Promise chip and the Promise driver works perfectly, unlike on Linux where I couldn't even use the card), and I've had no problem. I disabled the onboard-controller, moved the drives, then booted the 4.4-RELEASE install cd. Set up both disks (in "dangerously-dedicated" mode[1]) as ad4* and ad6* and everything "just worked". [alane ~/FreeBSD/ports]$ df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad4s1a 496111 46201 410222 10% / /dev/ad4s1g 65663205 17113278 43296871 28% /home /dev/ad4s1f 4961725 244363 4320424 5% /u /dev/ad4s1e 4961725 2687408 1877379 59% /usr /dev/ad6s1e 42609068 31304014 7896329 80% /v procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc [1] I'll switch to partition tables when I replace the drives ... -- Alan Eldridge Just another $THING hacker. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message