Are you using the correct cables? I had a problem when I changed system
cases and used the wrong cable when I put the drives back in (IDE cable
instead of a SATA cable) I now have FreeBSD 5.4-p3 booting up fine and
without error. I think this is a common problem, where people forget
about the minor details(I am sure we are all guilty of this at some time)
Michael C. Shultz wrote:
>I have one IDE and two SATA drives in my system. With
>FreeBSD 5.4 the system would not boot from the SATA
>drive so I use the IDE as the primary then mount
>the SATA drives in fstab. I tried upgrading to RELENG_6
>and with the new kernel one of the SATA drives errors
>out and so can't be mounted. I don't have the error message
>using the 6.0 kernel but here is dmesg from 5.4 if it helps:
>
>ad4: 76319MB <WDC WD800JD-00HKA0/13.03G13> [155061/16/63] at
ata2-master
>SATA150
>ad6: 114473MB <WDC WD1200JD-00HBB0/08.02D08> [232581/16/63] at
ata3-master
>SATA150
>
>It is at4 that is failing with 6.0, this drive never gives any problem under
>5.4. Both SATA drives are plugged into the same really cheap addon pci
>card.
>
>I'll be happy to provide more detail if requested and I'm able.
>
>Thank you,
>
>-Mike
>
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