From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 2 08:45:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB46D16A4CE; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 08:45:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from mv.milwaukeevalve.com (mail.milwaukeevalve.com [66.84.180.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6D4B43D58; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 08:45:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from linux@MILWAUKEEVALVE.COM) Received: (from root@localhost) by mv.milwaukeevalve.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id i02GfZj29441; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 10:41:35 -0600 Received: from Pmjalex ([192.168.2.189]) (authenticated) by mv.milwaukeevalve.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i02Gepe28097; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 10:40:52 -0600 From: "michael Alexander" To: "'Scott Long'" Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 10:40:50 -0600 Message-ID: <006a01c3d14f$2fc8dba0$bd02a8c0@Pmjalex> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20031229160108.P93734@pooker.samsco.home> X-scanner: scanned by Inflex 1.0.12.7 cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Problems installing onto DAC960 (Mylex Acceleraid250) X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 16:45:18 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org=20 > [mailto:owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Scott Long > Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 5:07 PM > To: michael Alexander > Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org; freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: Problems installing onto DAC960 (Mylex Acceleraid250) >=20 >=20 > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, michael Alexander wrote: > > > > Ok, downloaded the 5.2RC2-i386-miniinst.iso, no luck. > > BIOS has an option of > > "PCI IRQs to IO-APIC Mapping" (enabled/disabled) > > I didn't see anything else relating to APIC, or APCI(?) > > > > I set that to disabled. No luck, Then I left it disabled=20 > and tried install > > w/o apic, still no luck. Then I ran with logging and have=20 > the following > > messages on screen after the Waiting 15 seconds.... >=20 > Did you select the 'Boot with ACPI disabled' option from the=20 > boot menu on > the CD? Sorry if this is a dumb question, but people often transpose > 'apic' and 'acpi', so I want to make sure. I would try=20 > toggling both the > BIOS 'IO_APIC Mapping' option and the ACPI option on the CD boot menu. > If all four combinations fail to work, the only thing left to=20 > do is set > up a serial console and capture the boot output and email it out. The > boot serial console is enabled by escaping from the CD boot menu and > typing 'boot -Dhv' >=20 > Scott Yes, I did try using the boot with acpi disabled option, and it didn't = help. I got another message off-list, that stated that FreeBSD currently = doesn't work with the zero channel raid in this configuration, maybe not in any configuration? Because I do not have the proper cabling to connect the = card and the raid chassis, it appears that for now FreeBSD is a dead end for = this hardware. Thanks for the assistance though. -Mike