Subj : Help!!! 2nd drive gone To : Jasen Betts From : Mike Mcclain Date : Sun Feb 25 2001 05:27 am Howdy Jasen, Thanks for the response. I'd already posted this message to comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc and questions@freebsd.org without even a nibble. Sorry the message came across garbled. Sometimes cut and paste doesn't work as advertised. This time from less in one vt to minicom in another to aa editor running on a bbs across town. I'm plugging it in here which should make for easier reading. -=> Jasen Betts wrote to Mike Mcclain <=- JB> Hi Mike. JB> 22-Feb-01 09:44:20, Mike Mcclain wrote to All Howdy, I hadn't booted FreeBSD 3.4 for many months but had mounted several partitions on /dev/wd2s* from /etc/fstab. Last week I couldn't get a clean boot 'til I took all references to /dev/wd2s* out of /etc/fstab. Having done that I now see: fbsd:~> mount -t ext2fs /dev/wd2s1 /rh6 ext2fs: /dev/wd2s1: Device not configured fbsd:~> fdisk /dev/wd2.fdisk: cannot open disk /dev/wd2: Device not configured fbsd:~> disklabel /dev/wd2 disklabel: /dev/wd2: Device not configured fbsd:~> ls -l /dev/wd2s* brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 0x00020012 Mar 20 2000 /dev/wd2s1 .... /dev/wd2s2 through /dev/wd2s8 nearly identical brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 0x000a0012 Apr 20 2000 /dev/wd2s9 from /var/log/dmesg.today: this is the way it was. wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): wd0:4112MB (8421840 sectors), 8912 cyls, 15 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa wdc1: unit 0 (wd2): wd2: 6149MB (12594960 sectors), 13328 cyls, 15 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S from /var/log/messages: May 23 18:15:19 /kernel: wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa May 23 18:15:19 /kernel: wdc1: unit 0 (wd2): Feb 11 16:27:36 /kernel: wdc1 not found at 0x170 This makes me think the kernal is not seeing the controller at boot. wd2 aka D: aka /dev/hdc is visible from dos and I'm writing this from Slackware 7.0 mounted on /dev/hdc8. This from Slackware's /var/log/messages: Feb 15 09:20:15 playground kernel: hda: WDC AC24300L, 4112MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=524/255/63, UDMA Feb 15 09:20:15 playground kernel: hdc: WDC AC26400R, 6149MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=13328/15/63, (U)DMA I'm stumped. All suggestions welcome. TIA, MiKe JB> I can't think of anything you could have done wrong to your disk drive, JB> but your message came out this end with all the line-breaks missing. JB> So now you've got 2 problems, sorry. I don't think it's the drive, because both Dos and Linux access the drive just fine. While I could have changed something in BIOS I don't recall having done so. I'm convinced it's something in FreeBSD, but don't know where to look. JB> is /dev/wd2s the correct device? JB> (does FreeBSD give a list of devices detected during the boot process?) Yes and the pertinent parts are shown above. This is the one I think is getting me: Feb 11 16:27:36 /kernel: wdc1 not found at 0x170 wdc = winchester drive controller #1 which is the second one, controling what linux calls /dev/hdc & d. JB> It seems to me that the drive you knew as /dev/wd2s may have migrated JB> to a different name or dissapeared. (I can't think of a good reason why JB> that could have happened unless you've been poking around inside your JB> pc) I do get into the guts of my boxes upon occasion, but really don't think this is a hardware problem since 2 other OSs see the drive correctly. I take it from the tenor of your comments that you don't have FreeBSD installed, but thanks for your thoughts. See you in Linuxland, MiKe --- BBBS/LiI v4.01 Flag-2 * Origin: Ocean Beach BBS, San Diego, Ca (1:202/745) .