Re: Where did my partitions go?

2003-06-25 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 08:14:51PM -0400 or thereabouts, Brian McCann seemed to write:
 Ok...I'm having a small panic.  I have a server that I just got a 180GB
 IDE HD forbut the controller cards I have don't support drives over
 137GB, so I had to use the one Western Digital gave me.  Once I added
 that in, in threw off my drive assignments.  Here are the setups BEFORE
 the upgrade:
 
 Onboard IDE Pri/Sec Controller
 Onboard HPT Raid Pri/Sec Controller
 
 And after, I added a PCI Promise TX2.  My problem is, the Promise
 controller starts up before the HPT controller does.  So, what used to
 be ad4-6, is now ad8-10, and the new drive is ad4.  I thought this would
 not be a big deal and I would just have to shift the assignments in
 FSTAB and I'd be all set.  BUT, when I try mounting any of the old
 partitions that got reassigned, I get mount: /dev/ad8s1e: No such
 file or directory.  And when I run the Label part of sysinstall, it
 doesn't even show any partitions on there!  I'm sure there's a simple
 solution to this...but can someone PLEASE help me???

I'll assume you're running 4.x?
# cd /dev
# sh MAKEDEV ad4s1 ad5s1 ad6s1 ad7s1 ad8s1 ad9s1 ad10s1

-- Josh

 
 Many thanks,
 --Brian
 
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Where did my partitions go?

2003-06-24 Thread Brian McCann
Ok...I'm having a small panic.  I have a server that I just got a 180GB
IDE HD forbut the controller cards I have don't support drives over
137GB, so I had to use the one Western Digital gave me.  Once I added
that in, in threw off my drive assignments.  Here are the setups BEFORE
the upgrade:

Onboard IDE Pri/Sec Controller
Onboard HPT Raid Pri/Sec Controller

And after, I added a PCI Promise TX2.  My problem is, the Promise
controller starts up before the HPT controller does.  So, what used to
be ad4-6, is now ad8-10, and the new drive is ad4.  I thought this would
not be a big deal and I would just have to shift the assignments in
FSTAB and I'd be all set.  BUT, when I try mounting any of the old
partitions that got reassigned, I get mount: /dev/ad8s1e: No such
file or directory.  And when I run the Label part of sysinstall, it
doesn't even show any partitions on there!  I'm sure there's a simple
solution to this...but can someone PLEASE help me???

Many thanks,
--Brian

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