Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 18:13:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Bill Clark <wclark@xoom.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Fwd: Setting up RIAD] Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970823181330.366P-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <33FC3458.8800B79D@xoom.com>
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On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Bill Clark wrote: > > > I have a problem which probably has a very simple solution, but as I'm > inexperienced with configuring multiple SCSI drives, I'm currently at a > loss. > I have FreeBSD installed on my machine, and need to add a RAID to it. > Apparently, the problem is that the device id's are being assigned > incorrectly upon booting, because the machine boots just fine with > nothing plugged into the secondary SCSI controller (aha2940 I believe... > it sees the drives okay in any event, so I doubt that's the problem). > When I plug in the RAID, the BIOS sees the drives just fine, FreeBSD > recognizes the drives correctly, but I get a "panic: cannot mount root" > at the very end, which leads me to believe that it's assigning the > devices incorrectly, and thinks that the first SCSI drive in the RAID is > the root filesystem. I assume I'll have to hard-code in the devices, so > everything gets assigned in a consistent manner, but I'm not sure, and > am not clear on how to do this anyway (and don't want to waste my time > playing around with it if this isn't going to solve the problem). With > the RAID plugged in, sysinstall sees *only* the first four drives in the > RAID (on the _secondary_ controller card), but unplugged it sees the > three internal drives (primary card). Any ideas, or details on what > additional information I should provide to somebody assisting me with > this? Read /sys/i386/conf/LINT on wiring down SCSI devices. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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