Hello,
I have been working with Freebsd since 6.1. I have a TYAN Transport GT24 B2891 with AIC-7901 SCSI Adapter.
Everything worked well until Upgrading to 8.0. Freebsd 8 does not detect my hard drives. Been working on this for about 2 weeks so I know I am missing something, that I do not get.
List Of Scenarios:
1. Jan 17, 2010 to Jan 20,2010
2. Jan. 20, 2010- Jan 23, 2010. I must do some research.
4. Lets check and see if Freebsd 7.2 live can read the disk. I download 7.2 Live and 7.2 disk one.
5. I assume 8.0 kernel has dropped some stuff out.
It has been a long week and I am losing faith. Can someone help me. Maybe if I can get my hands on a comparison of the two kernels and see the differences or something. I don't know. I am looking for a solution and I do not want to go to debian. FreeBSD is so much better performance wise for a simple web server running php and apache.
I have been working with Freebsd since 6.1. I have a TYAN Transport GT24 B2891 with AIC-7901 SCSI Adapter.
Everything worked well until Upgrading to 8.0. Freebsd 8 does not detect my hard drives. Been working on this for about 2 weeks so I know I am missing something, that I do not get.
List Of Scenarios:
1. Jan 17, 2010 to Jan 20,2010
- I tried to update 7.2 to 8.0 via csup. That does not work because too many compiling errors.
- I tried binary update via freebsd-update. LOL. I had to replacing those comments added by mergemaster via the editor vi. For some reason it adds something like <<<<<<current version and >>>>>>> version 8 in all etc files. (I know I could tell mergemaster to leave /etc/ alone , but it was suggest to merge.) After the 5 time I had to remove all changes by typing them by hand(took a long time). Well tried to reboot and the system ask for a mount. The short conclusion, mounts do not work, so on to next theory.
2. Jan. 20, 2010- Jan 23, 2010. I must do some research.
- Some other forums and the notes said check if my disk are in Dangerous Dedicated Mode or "DD" for short. So, I read the notes to see what that meant. The notes are really unclear (Like it was written by Shakespeare). So, to clarify to anyone who reads this and to other dichotomous and robot thinking Com. Sci. hacks, I gathered that DD means only freebsd can read disk drives. You do not want your disk to be "DD" because it may cause problems for BIOS.
- Well at the time of doing all this, I thought maybe I am wrong, so I assumed I was in DD mode. So other forums across the web suggested that I do this in a LiveFS>Fix It Mode.
command at prompt#
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 count=1 oseek=1
DO NOT DO IT. This destroyed my File System because I was not in DD mode. Okay, I better understand DD mode. On to next step.
- I download Freebsd 8.0 live CD ISO and FreeBsd disk1 ISO CD Disk. I burn them.
- I insert FBSD 8.0 ISO DISK. Long story shortened, it does not install because it tells me no hard disk. System tells me to check if my controller at boot was probed.
- I put in the live 8.0 cd and it loads. I go to FIX IT mode and at the command prompt.
command prompt# ls /dev/
To my expectations, there is no list of the drives. Well on to the next thing.
4. Lets check and see if Freebsd 7.2 live can read the disk. I download 7.2 Live and 7.2 disk one.
- I put 7.2 live disk in and go to fix it mode. I can mount all my disks. 7.2 recognizes the disk. So something is different about 8.0. On to the next.
5. I assume 8.0 kernel has dropped some stuff out.
- Inserted 8.0 Disk 1 CD.
- At the FBSD prompt, I type in 6 to get to the boot loader command line.
- Just to make sure AIC7901 drivers are loaded I did these three commands.
load ahd
load ahd.ko
boot - Well, I try to install 8.0, and it cannot find any disk.
- I am desparate and I find myself asking for help at the source.
It has been a long week and I am losing faith. Can someone help me. Maybe if I can get my hands on a comparison of the two kernels and see the differences or something. I don't know. I am looking for a solution and I do not want to go to debian. FreeBSD is so much better performance wise for a simple web server running php and apache.