Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 23:00:41 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Calvin NG <calvinng@brel.com> Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NetFinity 5500-41U, cannot detect SCSI controller Message-ID: <199901020700.XAA57322@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 02 Jan 1999 15:03:28 %2B0800." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901021442320.24621-100000@amerasu.brel.com>
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> Greetings, > > Hi there. What a way to start a new year. > If it is a sin to cross-post, I beg your forgiveness, but feeling > a bit desperate here. > > problem: > Just got the above mentioned hardware, been trying to install 3.0 > on it. Tried with the normal floppy boot-image, and then the CAM > boot-floppy, but both was not able to detect the on-board > SCSI controller. > > background: > According to the hardware specs, the SCSI controller is a IBM > PCI ServRAID-3H/3L wide fast SCSI2, whatever that means. > I opened up the cover to take a peek inside, saw two Adaptec > AIC7880P chips in there. The ServeRAID controller is not supported, as explicitly noted in the FreeBSD-3.0 release notes. The controller uses the Adaptec chips internally, but these are not (AFAIK) available directly to the host system. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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