From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 1 20:41:53 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 BB6EC16A4CE for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 20:41:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from ms-smtp-03-eri0.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-03-lbl.southeast.rr.com [24.25.9.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BE5543D39 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 20:41:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wegster@mindcore.net) Received: from mindcore.net (rdu162-234-100.nc.rr.com [24.162.234.100]) i224fos1015017; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 23:41:50 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4044108E.2010700@mindcore.net> Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 23:41:50 -0500 From: Scott W User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jagadish N Vajha References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: BSD on machines with RAID 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: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 04:41:53 -0000 Jagadish N Vajha wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know if its possible to run Free BSD on IBM machines > with a RAID controller (SCSI hard drives are used). I have tried > installing it but the system keeps on freezing continuously during > setup, the same system works perfectly with other OS's. > > Please let me know if anyone has a solution for this. > > Regards, > > Jagadish > _________________________________________________________________ > > Skin is in! Bollywood is sizzling. [1]Check out these hot pics! > >References > > 1. http://g.msn.com/8HMAENIN/2749??PS= >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > Works fine, although it appears that the ips driver seems to want the 5.11 firmware on the ServeRAID card, instead of the newer 6.X series. I did some trivial digging into the ips source but didn't see any specific comments or macros defining a desired firmware level, but 5.11 firmware works fine for me, whereas I know a few people have seemed to have problems, possibly due to firmware and drive incompatibility (I currently work at IBM and can say definitively 5.11 and 6.X firmware and drivers do not want to play together...) Scott IBM 4500R ServeRAID 3L 5.11 firmware 2x striped system drives FreeBSD current, working fine since 5.1-BETA