From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 23 21:24:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0709737BA15 for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 21:24:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA40907; Wed, 24 May 2000 00:24:22 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 00:24:21 -0400 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Brian Handy Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI Confusion Message-ID: <20000524002421.F40441@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from handy@lambic.physics.montana.edu on Tue, May 23, 2000 at 09:19:55PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 09:19:55PM -0600, Brian Handy wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running 4.0-STABLE from about May 17. I have a strange situation > here; I've got two sets of two disk drives chained to my SCSI bus here > that I use for data drives. (Not currently using softupdates.) From a > df: > > Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/da1s1e 4050327 3644898 81403 98% /a > /dev/da2s1e 4050327 2933727 792574 79% /b > /dev/da3s1c 17253247 158881 15714107 1% /c > /dev/da4s1c 17253247 9725925 6147063 61% /d You should not use the c-partition. > > They're connected like this, with "-->" representing cables connecting the > boxes: > > (externalbox #1) (externalbox #2) > PC --> [SCSI 3, SCSI 4] --> [SCSI 1, SCSI 2] > > Oh yea, dmesg might be useful. Attached at end. Anyway, here's the > problem: When I dismount and disconnect that last box, remove it from > fstab, put terminators after externalbox #1, I find that upon reboot > FreeBSD screams mightily, says I need to do an fsck on drives 3 and 4, > and dumps me in single-user mode. OK, re-attach the box, leave it > off... and I still get wild complaints. Lastly, turn on box #2, but don't > mount the drives -- and it boots up fine! > > I'm completely puzzled here. Any suggestions? Are you _absolutely_ sure that the drives in box #1 are equivalent to da3 and da4 (the 17.4 GB drives) and that box #2 contains the two 4 GB drives? When you are in that single user mode, what does, # camcontrol devlist -v Show? As an aside, am I the only one with no sym(4) manpage? > -- > sym0: <875> port 0xf800-0xf8ff mem 0xfedff000-0xfedfffff,0xfedfec00-0xfedfecff irq 11 at device 13.0 on pci0 > sym0: Symbios NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, SE, parity checking > sym0: open drain IRQ line driver, using on-chip SRAM > da4 at sym0 bus 0 target 12 lun 0 > da4: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device > da4: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled > da4: 17366MB (35566480 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 2213C) > da3 at sym0 bus 0 target 11 lun 0 > da3: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device > da3: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled > da3: 17366MB (35566480 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 2213C) > da1 at sym0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 > da1: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device > da1: 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15) > da1: 4157MB (8515173 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 530C) > da2 at sym0 bus 0 target 2 lun 0 > da2: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device > da2: 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15) > da2: 4157MB (8515173 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 530C) -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message