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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ahc0/ahc1 oddity Date: 5 Oct 1996 17:27:41 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 33 Message-ID: <5365qd$ba@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <52poiu$6fg@itchy.serv.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E zeno@serv.net (Sean T. Lamont) wrote: > I posted this once before , but got no responses. You're posting this now as a wrong followup to an unrelated article. I almost discarded your posting as being part of a thread i have not been interested in. Better learn how to post before... (I've dropped the bad references so the thread display should be okay now.) > I have configured ahc0 and ahc1 in our news server. > > When the system comes up, the following happens > > - Controller 0 is detected > - Controller 1 is detected > - BIOS boots off first disk of controller 0. > - Kernel loads > - Kernel assigns controller 1 to ahc0 , controller 0 to ahc1. > - System fails because there is no moutable sd0 on the first disk of ahc0, > which is controller 1. Swap the controllers. The sequence of their probing is dependant of the slot numbers, and apparently, FreeBSD disagrees with the BIOS here. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)