From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 25 09:06:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 917A216A4CE for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:06:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from relay.pair.com (relay.pair.com [209.68.1.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 078C543D55 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:06:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from robin@jessikat.fsnet.co.uk) Received: (qmail 45361 invoked from network); 25 Aug 2004 09:06:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.3?) (213.86.96.61) by relay.pair.com with SMTP; 25 Aug 2004 09:06:02 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 213.86.96.61 Message-ID: <412C5676.5030808@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 10:05:58 +0100 From: Robin Becker User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (Windows/20040707) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Kelly References: <411F7B31.2050507@jessikat.fsnet.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD_Questions FreeBSD_Questions Subject: Re: dell 8400 install prob X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:06:06 -0000 David Kelly wrote: > > On Aug 15, 2004, at 10:03 AM, Robin Becker wrote: > >> Sigh! I tried with 4.10 as well and that also fails. Sadly I don't >> have a spare IDE / drive lying about. I guess I'll have to wait on >> freebsd or install one of the more advanced Linux OSes > > > I didn't *install* on my SATA drives on Dell PowerEdge 400SC, but > FreeBSD 5.2.1 didn't have any issues with them. Brought them up fresh > out of their antistatic bags with the 5.2.1 installer CDROM. > > Don't believe I'm having any issues with the *drives* but vinum doesn't > always remember their striped volume configuration between boots. > > Not sure how similar the 400SC is to your 8400. The 400SC does not have > ATA RAID on the motherboard. I have a BIOS option that converts the SATA operation from either ACPI/RAID through ATA/RAID or COMBINED, things seem better when I use COMBINED (which I think means PATA/SATA). Anyone know what these things really mean? Changing from ATA/RAID to combined doesn't seem to hurt XP, and allows KNOPPIX to see the hard disk whilst freeBSD 4.10 seems to see the hard disk now. Do I dare attempt an install? -- Robin Becker