From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 6 1:58:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cs.huji.ac.il (cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7F5337B66D; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 01:58:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sexta.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.16.13] ident=exim) by cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13hTKo-0004PI-00; Fri, 06 Oct 2000 10:58:30 +0200 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=sexta.cs.huji.ac.il ident=danny) by sexta.cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13hTKn-0003R3-00; Fri, 06 Oct 2000 11:58:29 +0300 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-0.24 To: Mike Smith Cc: bsdi-users@mailinglists.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adaptec AIC 7899 SCSI In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 06 Oct 2000 01:38:37 -0700 . Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 10:58:29 +0200 From: Danny Braniss Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200010060838.e968cbh04977@mass.osd.bsdi.com>you write: }> hi all, }> somebody dropped a Dell PowerEdge 2450 rackmount server on my lap :-) }> it has Dell Perc 3/si controller, which seems to be another name for }> Adaptec AIC-7899. } }No. The 3/Si involves the i960 and the DIMM slot as well. If you have }the RAID key in the system (little dongle, plugs over on the righthand }side, check the diagram inside the system lid), you will need the 'aac' }driver from -current or }http://people.freebsd.org/~msmith/RAID/index.html#adaptec getting it now, will check asap. } }If there's no RAID key in the system, then you have a standard aic7899. }If there's a RAID key but no DIMM, then you will probably confuse the }hell out of things. Note that you need to set the controller up before }you can do anything with it. } it has both, so far i disabled the RAID in the BIOS and now the disk is seen. im at the moment installing FreeBSD 4.1.1, since BSDi though saw the disks couldn't get the exp0/exp1 to work (Grrrrr) }> anyway, }> NT: ok }> FreeBSD: 4.1.1 does not see it }> BSDi: 4.1 does see the controller but does not find any disks } }I'd be interested to know what BSD/OS thinks it's seeing. I don't }believe they support this controller. it does, and saw the 2 ibm disks, and something else which i forgot :-( but didn't check if it could write because my floppy instalation uses the network (see above). } }> Linux: not yet tested. } }You will need the percraid driver as shipped by Dell, or the aacraid }driver as shipping with RedHat 7.0 } thanks, danny PS: BTW, i sent you a bootp.c with dhcp stuff some while ago ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message