Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 07:31:47 +0200 (SAST) From: "Geoff Rehmet" <geoffr@is.co.za> To: brian@pobox.com Cc: sos@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA - Trouble mounting secondary master Message-ID: <19990811053147.66418.qmail@rucus.ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <19990811010915.17486.rocketmail@web1001.mail.yahoo.com> from Brian McGroarty at "Aug 10, 1999 06:09:15 pm"
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Brian McGroarty writes : > In using the ATA driver, I'm unable to automatically mount a > partition on a master drive on the secondary controller. fsck > complains that device rwd2s1e isn't configured and exists. > Immediately mounting by hand works perfectly. > > Compiling the kernel with wd instead of ata eliminates the > problem. Hmm, I had exactly the same problem, although it manifested itself with a secondary master or slave. It went away a few weeks ago, and I was never able to make any sensible progress in tracking the problem down. It appears to occur when the partition table is read. Something times out, and the real partition table values are not read. The second time you read the disk, everything works. For a while, I had the line disklabel /dev/rad2s1a 2>&1 > /dev/null in my rc file :-). This was enough to kick the disk past the initial problem. (Not the right thing to do, but it allowed me to reboot without hitting single user mode.) Geoff. -- Geoff Rehmet, The Internet Solution geoffr@is.co.za; geoff@rucus.ru.ac.za; csgr@freebsd.org tel: +27-83-292-5800 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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