From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 11 00:45:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA69B16A4CE for ; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 00:45:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58FE443D45 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 00:45:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.11.6p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id i0B8jgi29566; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 00:45:43 -0800 From: Kent Stewart To: Matt Bjornson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 00:45:42 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401110045.42038.kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: aic7xxx/FreeBSD/Linux can't find disk drives X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 08:45:57 -0000 On Saturday 10 January 2004 09:06 pm, Matt Bjornson wrote: > I have a Dell PowerEdge 2400 with dual 733 Mhx CPUs. I have tried > to install several distros of Linux (Red Hat 9.0 and Gentoo 1.4) > and FreeBSD 4.8, 5.0 and while I can get the kernels to recognize > the Adaptec 7890 and the Adaptec 7880 and use my scsi CDROM, when I > fdisk to try to create partitions, I receive a unable to find > /dev/sda Thanks > All of the scsi disks I ever had were refered to as /dev/da... Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html