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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.texas.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!cs.utexas.edu!atlantis.utmb.edu!news From: "Ernest C. Hymel" <ehymel@utmb.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: HELP! "Device not configured" message with scsi disk Date: 10 Oct 1996 06:50:22 GMT Organization: Univ. of Texas Medical Branch Lines: 52 Message-ID: <01bbb677$4dbcc180$27366d81@ErnestH.utmb.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: masscomp.utmb.edu X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Hi everyone. I'm trying to install a new disk under FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE. The disk gets recognized by the BIOS correctly, and FreeBSD recognizes it during startup: >dmesg ...stuff deleted... ncr0 waiting for scsi devices to settle (ncr0:0:0): "QUANTUM VP32210 81H8" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd0(ncr0:0:0): Direct-Access sd0(ncr0:0:0): FAST SCSI-2 100ns (10 Mb/sec) offset 8. 2103MB (4308352 512 byte sectors) (ncr0:1:0): "HP C3725S 5153" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd1(ncr0:1:0): Direct-Access sd1(ncr0:1:0): FAST SCSI-2 100ns (10 Mb/sec) offset 8. 2047MB (4194058 512 byte sectors) ...more stuff deleted... The first disk (Quantum VP32210) is my working disk that I've had for several months now, and the second disk (HP C3725S) is what I'm trying to install. When I try to disklabel the HP drive: >disklabel -R -r /dev/rsd1 hpdisk I see strange messages about "device not configured". dmesg may give more hints: >dmesg ...stuff deleted... sd1(ncr0:1:0): ABORTED COMMAND asc:4e,0 Overlapped commands attempted , retries:4 sd1(ncr0:1:0): ABORTED COMMAND asc:4e,0 Overlapped commands attempted , retries:3 sd1(ncr0:1:0): ABORTED COMMAND asc:4e,0 Overlapped commands attempted , retries:2 sd1(ncr0:1:0): ABORTED COMMAND asc:4e,0 Overlapped commands attempted , retries:1 sd1(ncr0:1:0): ABORTED COMMAND asc:4e,0 Overlapped commands attempted , FAILURE sd1: error reading primary partition table reading fsbn 0 (sd1 bn 0; cn 0 tn 0 sn 0) Can anyone tell me what's going on? I have looked all over the web (FAQ's, etc.) and the closest thing I've found is about getting "device not configured" when trying to mount a cdrom without a cd in it. Is this trying to tell me I don't have the drive (hardware) configured correctly? I'm fairly certain that the drive's scsi address and termination jumpers are set correctly (scsi address 1 and no active termination). I've even played with these with no change. HELP! Ernest Hymel