From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 12 20:18:50 2011 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 E020810656E1 for ; Thu, 12 May 2011 20:18:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from redtick@sbcglobal.net) Received: from nm17.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com (nm17.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com [66.94.237.218]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7E0BB8FC0A for ; Thu, 12 May 2011 20:18:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [66.94.237.194] by nm17.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 12 May 2011 20:18:49 -0000 Received: from [66.94.237.112] by tm5.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 12 May 2011 20:18:49 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1017.access.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 12 May 2011 20:18:49 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 801868.74170.bm@omp1017.access.mail.mud.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 11580 invoked by uid 60001); 12 May 2011 20:18:49 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=sbcglobal.net; s=s1024; t=1305231529; bh=vLJpo2Wf1W58WfUr8g1qiSgJyUy8nIq69M501yUdSL8=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=J5StHSCn2erNuroAwgF3HR6JJpC2BMsv+h2kSywJ1+VDoLdCB/Km8U2bHUygQ+r+NZtAL6BU1nrG07LD5ODNrRKRyxuR7TJ9A3Dcudz5CTxjMpOX73QsOhw/Gv+aZ0tGg9W/8oTvTa/TrmhwiGxVzAdhv+hZqzrTlgjbJ/CRa3U= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=sbcglobal.net; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=AN81cR9ejpNv9q3ivBW3nv6Hze75A3eHAo4yTZ526vS8DdJpwf9sElQl9+l339o/SN7n2+1GItMv3ZH81Kp37ZAefNgoCF69s4QLdMelV+/XB0k17DR6OIJZCZs1FQcHkQP/q/Qr41v9522gmDnYW6VS/AIRMFaZ5AP34mJR8SI=; Message-ID: <523309.8704.qm@web81208.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: OQHSY00VM1kcssqPpGENru7DEO9LspxLzGk2062jNlJDwll QSchOLu22RoIQlR7MSl1p7aGP45zd0E54G7cOk3Zkj1qTXAJ3HxxtxFd3d1v 0wHZS9a4tPetCVQ3h94f8k1qq5FraF.nw0QoLCZBW7QrkIvgDKE7U8sq1FDR Is_3YH1Wlvdv8drdgbXN542Bgz5VgclUnWBVfUG6nzcNnmpV13fj6hepHwWX 78_0DI2IObUpCuO9cpWPeA24faQNsLUICZndO_QH9fwbZGXXlislowYbDM1c grmvgjc5rnsJ03zy5y4O.euWl7W8xCzR8o2EnIsHNi4kuL2_xJz0zI4QQAJe YF8S34bO0tPMKaeS22I9s8LQaA5SfpjvWTAiUCcbcqsZKmJUp5c.nL9.sov3 Jxc78L3FXo90Dyg-- Received: from [75.41.234.85] by web81208.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 12 May 2011 13:18:49 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/12.0.2 YahooMailWebService/0.8.110.299900 Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 13:18:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark To: Dillin Smith In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: help help Subject: Re: Hard drive detection X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 20:18:51 -0000 People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand = ready to do violence on their behalf.=20 George Orwell --- On Thu, 5/12/11, Dillin Smith wrote: > From: Dillin Smith > Subject: Hard drive detection > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Thursday, May 12, 2011, 2:17 PM > Hi all, >=20 > =A0 I'm having an issue getting my installation of > FreeBSD to detect all the > drives in the system. It has 48 total, 46 2TB, and 2 250GB. > The system > consists of six controllers, with eight drives on each. The > two 250GB hard > drives are the first drives on controllers 0 and 1. >=20 > =A0 There are two of these machines with the exact same > configurations, having > the same problem. A very odd thing is that every time the > systems are > rebooted, the drives that go undetected vary. Also, when > the systems were > full of 250GB drives, all were detected. All drives are > detected in the BIOS > of the controllers, just not by FreeBSD. >=20 > Any and all help is greatly appreciated. > (output of dmesg attached) >=20 Look in the output from pciconf -lv | more Are all the controller cards listed?? If not then look to the controller d= river man page for hints to get them to play nice together.