From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Nov 27 10:27:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9271637B405 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:27:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fARIR9G04957; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 19:27:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 19:27:09 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: "Koster, K.J." Cc: "'freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: booting a 2100 with EISA MyLex controller Message-ID: <20011127192709.A4926@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FDA133@l04.research.kpn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FDA133@l04.research.kpn.com>; from K.J.Koster@kpn.com on Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 06:59:21PM +0100 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. -- | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message