Re: Prepping to install

["William A. Mahaffey III" <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost>]

On 05/31/15 14:45, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> On 05/31/15 14:43, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 02:41:01PM -0453, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> > > At 1st glance, I see no AHCI options for SATA. I do see OHCI & EHCI for
> > > 'Southbridge chipset configuration' ....
> > It is often called "internal ide controller mode" or similar.
> >
> > Martin
>
> Indeed it was, confusing names, but I seem to be past this hurdle :-) 
> .... Thanks !!!!


Well, on to more issues. I proceeded with my install, took the utilities 
option & from the shell, partitioned & disklabel'ed my 6 HDD's as I 
wanted them. All appeared to go well, no error messages. I then 
proceeded to raidctl commands to define the various RAID's I am trying 
to use. In particular, I am using the 1st 16 GiB of the 1st 2 drives 
(wd0 & wd1) as my root drive in a RAID1 configuration. I typed in the 
commands to define the RAID from a configuration file I set up & got 
errors saying something about the # of columns in /dev/wd0a or 1a was 
wrong. Inconveniently, these messages went by on the screen, not into 
the messages file on the install flash-drive. So I powered off, 
unplugged the flash drive & plugged it into this box (FreeBSD 9.3R-p13 
desktop) to post my config files & ask for help & I can't read it, I get 
errors in my messages file & the drive won't mount, making it difficult 
to post my RAID config files which are on the flash drive :-/ .... I 
unplugged it & tried it on another box, a FC14 x86_64 server, & it 
showed up (sorta), said

May 31 16:26:59 Q6600 kernel: [4399885.712037] usb 2-5: new high speed 
USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8
May 31 16:27:00 Q6600 kernel: [4399885.841058] usb 2-5: New USB device 
found, idVendor=13fe, idProduct=4200
May 31 16:27:00 Q6600 kernel: [4399885.841062] usb 2-5: New USB device 
strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
May 31 16:27:00 Q6600 kernel: [4399885.841065] usb 2-5: Product: MKNUFDPR4GB
May 31 16:27:00 Q6600 kernel: [4399885.841067] usb 2-5: Manufacturer: 
MUSHKIN
May 31 16:27:00 Q6600 kernel: [4399885.841069] usb 2-5: SerialNumber: 
C500545DB516E726
May 31 16:27:00 Q6600 kernel: [4399885.844730] scsi12 : usb-storage 2-5:1.0
May 31 16:27:01 Q6600 kernel: [4399886.846495] scsi 12:0:0:0: 
Direct-Access     MUSHKIN  MKNUFDPR4GB      PMAP PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
May 31 16:27:01 Q6600 kernel: [4399886.847456] sd 12:0:0:0: Attached 
scsi generic sg6 type 0
May 31 16:27:03 Q6600 kernel: [4399889.494951] sd 12:0:0:0: [sdg] 
7575544 512-byte logical blocks: (3.87 GB/3.61 GiB)
May 31 16:27:03 Q6600 kernel: [4399889.497448] sd 12:0:0:0: [sdg] Write 
Protect is off
May 31 16:27:03 Q6600 kernel: [4399889.497454] sd 12:0:0:0: [sdg] 
Assuming drive cache: write through
May 31 16:27:03 Q6600 kernel: [4399889.506195] sd 12:0:0:0: [sdg] 
Assuming drive cache: write through
May 31 16:27:03 Q6600 kernel: [4399889.506228]  sdg: sdg1
May 31 16:27:03 Q6600 kernel: [4399889.511827]  sdg1: <netbsd: >
May 31 16:27:03 Q6600 kernel: [4399889.517698] sd 12:0:0:0: [sdg] 
Assuming drive cache: write through
May 31 16:27:03 Q6600 kernel: [4399889.517729] sd 12:0:0:0: [sdg] 
Attached SCSI removable disk


What FS type can I use to get the disk recognized on that box so I can 
post my config files :-) ? TIA for *any* clues & have a nice weekend.


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	William A. Mahaffey III

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