It seems Len Conrad wrote: > False alert! > > On a hint from Soeren Schmidt, we looked at the Promise ATA cables. The 1U > box integrator had reversed the cable, controller-end to disk, and > disk-end to controller. > > With great difficulty, due to the cable routing having the middle ATA > connector falling right on a too-small feedthrough hole (could explain why > the integrator reversed the cable in the first place. it's a "reversible" > flat cable after all!!), we got the cable connected controller-end to > controller, and disk-end to disk and dmesg now shows; > > ar0: 39083MB <ATA SPAN array> [4982/255/63] status: READY subdisks: > 0 READY ad4: 39083MB <Maxtor 6Y040L0> [79408/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA133 > > ar1: 39083MB <ATA SPAN array> [4982/255/63] status: READY subdisks: > 0 READY ad6: 39083MB <Maxtor 6Y040L0> [79408/16/63] at ata3-master UDMA133 > > Thanks Soeren!!
Glad to be of help :) let me know if other problems show up! -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
