From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 12 16: 9: 0 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 12 16:08:58 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFBB537B400 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 16:08:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eBD08nm31897; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 13:08:49 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 13:08:49 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: "Martin Gignac (LMC)" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Addendum: Does FreeBSD 3.5 support the AIC-7899 chipset from Adap tec... Message-ID: <20001213130849.B30955@itouchnz.itouch> References: <32CD630F6CBED411AE180008C7894CBCD8E4F6@lmc37.lmc.ericsson.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <32CD630F6CBED411AE180008C7894CBCD8E4F6@lmc37.lmc.ericsson.se>; from lmcgign@lmc.ericsson.se on Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 07:00:19PM -0500 Sender: jonc@itouch.co.nz Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 07:00:19PM -0500, Martin Gignac (LMC) wrote: > I forgot to mention that the reason I am asking the question is that we are > trying to install FreeBSD 3.4 on a Dell PowerEdge 2450 system using the > kernel and mfsroot floppies. Once it comes up to the disk configuration > screen, it complains that no hard drives can be found (or at least something > to that effect). I am assuming that this is because of lack of support for > the AIC-7899 SCSI controller used in the system. With the PowerEdges, I think you've got to change the BIOS setting so that it doesn't use the SCSI card as a RAID card. Otherwise, I think you're out of luck, and may have to get at least 4.2 in order to install it with RAID. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen Once is dumb luck. Twice is coincidence. Three times and Somebody Is Trying To Tell You Something. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message