Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 21:39:59 -0500 From: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> To: rchopra@cal.berkeley.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding A Hard Drive Using A PCI Controller Message-ID: <200409092139.59961.josh@tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <20040909215852.66764.qmail@web52106.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040909215852.66764.qmail@web52106.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thursday 09 September 2004 16:58, Rishi Chopra wrote: > I just installed FreeBSD 5.2 on an old Dell (Pentium > 120). The box has an ide controller onboard as well > as a Promise Ultra100 TX2 PCI controller card. > There's a 4GB hard drive attatched to the onboard > controller used for all of the system files (e.g. /, > /var, /tmp, and /usr) and a 200GB hard drive attached > to the PCI card with one giant 200GB FAT32 partition > for data. > > The PCI card is recognized during boot (the card's > BIOS loads during bootup and a quick 'dmesg' shows a > atapci1 entry), but I don't see any entries for the > drive under /dev (e.g. there's no /dev/ad1* > partitions). I checked that the drive and controller > are working, since another computer with a win2k > installation seems them just fine. The onboard > controller and attached system drive seem to work just > fine. > > Can anyone suggest why the PCI controller is > recognized but the drive attached to it isn't? What > should I do so that the drive is recognized? > > ===== > Rishi Chopra > http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra The drive on the PCI adapter should show up as ad4*** Don't know if that fixes your problem or not. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel
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