From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 20 18:08:40 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B4CF1065692 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:08:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@midsummerdream.org) Received: from p3plsmtpa01-10.prod.phx3.secureserver.net (p3plsmtpa01-10.prod.phx3.secureserver.net [72.167.82.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 39BF28FC51 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:08:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 11090 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2009 18:08:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (76.217.88.174) by p3plsmtpa01-10.prod.phx3.secureserver.net (72.167.82.90) with ESMTP; 20 Aug 2009 18:08:39 -0000 Message-ID: <4A8D9124.6020405@midsummerdream.org> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:08:36 -0500 From: Rob User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090701) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: No Device Node assigned for HD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: lists@midsummerdream.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:08:40 -0000 I've a 10 disk server that I am using as a file server. I split the disks up unto 3 partitions, with a being part of a gmirror for /, b being part of a gmirror for swap, and d being part of the zfs pool. I've got 6 SATA headers on my MB, and 4 from a HighPoint RocketRAID 2310 controller which I'm just using as an SATA controller (no RAID functionality). I recently added an Hitachi 1TB drive to the RocketRAID controller, but I'm not seeing FreeBSD assign it a device node. FreeBSD recognizes the drive insertion, but doesn't give it a device node. All the drives are SATA hot-swap, so I connected the drive to a header off the MB and FreeBSD happily gave it a device node. Additionally, I already have a few of these drives in the array, but they're all connected to headers on the MB. This is the first attempt at adding one to the RocketRAID controller. The controller currently has 3 other disks in it that are 500GB, and FreeBSD has had no problems with them. The RocketRAID controller's BIOS recognizes the disk as well, so it doesn't seem the card is incapable of handling disks that large. I've even tried rebooting the system after the drive has been connected, but no luck. Here's the respective info from the boot sequence as it pertains to the RocketRAID and the drives attached to it: hptrr: start channel [0,0] hptrr: start channel [0,1] hptrr: start channel [0,2] hptrr: start channel [0,3] hptrr: [0 0] Start channel soft reset. hptrr: [0 1] Start channel soft reset. hptrr: [0 2] Start channel soft reset. hptrr: [0 3] Start channel soft reset. hptrr: channel [0,0] started successfully hptrr: channel [0,1] started successfully hptrr: channel [0,2] started successfully hptrr: channel [0,3] started successfully hptrr0: [GIANT-LOCKED] hptrr0: [ITHREAD] ... da0 at hptrr0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device da1 at hptrr0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 da1: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device da2 at hptrr0 bus 0 target 2 lun 0 da2: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device ... The only difference I've found is that in the RocketRAID BIOS, the 3 500GB drives are recognized with a Legacy Status, whereas the 1TB is recognized as New Status. Not sure what that means or how to change it. The sizes are reported correctly in the RocketRAID BIOS. I believe there is a BIOS update available for the card, but I wouldn't think it would be necessary since the card's BIOS seems to recognize the card just fine. Any suggestions/help? Rob