Fwd: Hard drive detection

[Eivind E]

On Thu, 12 May 2011, Dillin Smith wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>   I'm having an issue getting my installation of FreeBSD to detect all
> the drives in the system. It has 48 total, 46 2TB, and 2 250GB. The
> system consists of six controllers, with eight drives on each. The two
> 250GB hard drives are the first drives on controllers 0 and 1.
>
>   There are two of these machines with the exact same configurations,
> having the same problem. A very odd thing is that every time the
> systems are rebooted, the drives that go undetected vary. Also, when
> the systems were full of 250GB drives, all were detected. All drives
> are detected in the BIOS of the controllers, just not by FreeBSD.
> Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
> (output of dmesg attached)

When I had that problem (although on a much simpler machine), the
problem turned out to be the piece of junk graphics card I had put
in it just for the os install. It had stretched downwards with time
until it shorted some pins on the disk controller on side where
they were soldered.

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