*BSD News Article 43818


Return to BSD News archive

Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!pacbell.com!tandem!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!news3.near.net!paperboy.wellfleet.com!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!agate!tfs.com!mailhub!julian
From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Subject: Re: HELP: FreeBSD does not recognize SCSI drive
Message-ID: <D7IMCI.LE1@tfs.com>
Sender: usenet@tfs.com (Mr. News)
Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA
References: <3n272o$109@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 01:19:29 GMT
Lines: 31

In article <3n272o$109@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Geordan Rosario <geordan@ocf.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>I have two IDE drives and one SCSI drive.  The SCSI is hooked up to a BusLogic
>KT-445C and can be seen by DOS upon startup (no SCSI drivers necessary).
>
>I ran the FreeBSD 2.0 install(I hadn't planned to go through it completely
>yet). I wanted to see if it would recognize the SCSI drive...which it didn't.
>All the disklabel editor saw were wd0 and wd1.  I did notice that during the
>boot process my SCSI card and the drive were recognized, or at least it seemed
>like it.

if it did find the 445 and didn't give any error messages, then it SHOULD
have found the disk..

>
>The SCSI drive only has a logical partition; no primary.  But I don't think it
>would matter...would it?
no
that shouldn't make a difference

>
>Anyway...how do I make FreeBSD see the SCSI?
geeze, hard to say without more information..

are you SURE it's seeign teh 445 correclty?
what does it say?

julian
>