Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 19:26:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Kaya Saman <kayasaman@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd@dreamchaser.org, Thomas Mueller <mueller23@insightbb.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange case of vanishing disk Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206041924540.3637@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <4FCCBD85.4020108@gmail.com> References: <99.2A.28751.ABF1CCF4@smtp01.insight.synacor.com> <4FCC2483.5080901@gmail.com> <4FCC650A.6000201@dreamchaser.org> <4FCCBD85.4020108@gmail.com>
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> > I just "offlined" the system and took a look at the BIOS. The hard disk > controller was set to "ATA NATIVE", I attempted changing to AHCI and the > system failed to boot thereafter. do you have ahci and ada drivers compiled in? > > Booting into my rescue CD of FreeSBIE, with AHCI enabled only showed "ad4" > (the troubled disk) to be registering. showing up some, but not all disks after rebooting is quite common to the problem i described. POWERING OFF (by disconnecting electricity, not by power button), waiting a minute, and powering on "fixes" the problem for some time.
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