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Date:      Tue, 27 Nov 2001 19:27:09 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com>
Cc:        "'freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: booting a 2100 with EISA MyLex controller
Message-ID:  <20011127192709.A4926@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FDA133@l04.research.kpn.com>; from K.J.Koster@kpn.com on Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 06:59:21PM %2B0100
References:  <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FDA133@l04.research.kpn.com>

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On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 06:59:21PM +0100, Koster, K.J. wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I'm working to revive a rather dusty AS2100. It cd boots FreeBSD/axp
> 4.4-release fine, probes around a bit, but fails to detect any disks.
> Sysinstall is started and works, except it cannot find disks to install
> onto. Until I started fiddling with it it booted NT just fine, so the disks
> are technically operable.
> 
> >From the mailing list archives I understand that the Mylex controller should
> work, so I'm not sure what I'm missing. Have there been any post 4.4-R
> changes to the mlx driver that I'd have to take advantage of?
> 
> More info:
> 
>  Alphaserver 2100 4/200 dual cpu
>  SRM console V5.3-2

Which answers my earlier question quite nicely, an EV4 box.

> According to show dev the mylex is on hose 1, EISA. Hose 0 seems to be the
> PCI bus.
> 
>   dra0.0.0.8.1	DRA0	2 member raid 1
>   dra1.0.0.8.1	DRA1	1 member JBOD
> 
> Any ideas how to proceed?

Eh.. write a stub to the Mylex RAID driver to accomodate an EISA
RAIDarray 210 card ;-) mlx(4) is for PCI cards only at the moment.

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