From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 1 16:42:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sinai.dhs.org (adsl-216-103-54-61.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [216.103.54.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07ED215362; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 16:42:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sab@sinai.dhs.org) Received: from localhost (sab@localhost) by sinai.dhs.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id QAA47394; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 16:34:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sab@sinai.dhs.org) Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 16:34:54 -0800 (PST) From: Scott Benjamin To: Mike Smith Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDA driver issues upon installation. Probing devices hangs In-Reply-To: <199911020024.QAA00527@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The array only contains two drives. Hmm.. the only other way is to use a drive on the embedded controller, which is a ncr (chipset 53C825) which isn't found by probing when the kernel loads. It's and embedded EISA compaq 32-bit Fast-Wide Scsi2-/e .. On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > I've tried moving irq's around and removing some other cards but nothing. > > If I boot without the ida driver, it works ifne except that I don't have > > any drives to install on. > > Oops, I forgot to mention; you can't install onto an 'ida' drive; you > need a system drive. You will want one anyway; swapping onto a RAID5 > array is a pretty lame idea. 8) > > -- > \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith > \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message