From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 13 9:32:45 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 13 09:32:40 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from imr1.ericy.com (imr1.ericy.com [208.237.135.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF7D537B404 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 09:32:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from mr5.exu.ericsson.se (mr5u3.ericy.com [208.237.135.124]) by imr1.ericy.com (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id eBDHWNA06582; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 11:32:24 -0600 (CST) Received: from lmc.ericsson.se (noah.lmc.ericsson.se [142.133.1.1]) by mr5.exu.ericsson.se (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id eBDHTXM27867; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 11:29:33 -0600 (CST) Received: from LMC37.lmc.ericsson.se (lmc51.lmc.ericsson.se [142.133.16.191]) by lmc.ericsson.se (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id MAA11171; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:32:20 -0500 (EST) Received: by lmc37.lmc.ericsson.se with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:32:18 -0500 Message-ID: <32CD630F6CBED411AE180008C7894CBCD8E4FC@lmc37.lmc.ericsson.se> From: "Martin Gignac (LMC)" To: "'Jonathan Chen'" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: Addendum: Does FreeBSD 3.5 support the AIC-7899 chipset from Adap tec... Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:32:18 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG We have RAID turned off and had success installing 4.0, but for specific reasons we wanted to stay in the 3.X branch if possible, and wanted to know if 3.5 supported the AIC-7899, even in non-RAID mode. -Martin -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Chen [mailto:jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz] Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 7:09 PM To: Martin Gignac (LMC) Cc: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' Subject: Re: Addendum: Does FreeBSD 3.5 support the AIC-7899 chipset from Adap tec... 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