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Date:      Sat, 17 Jun 2000 19:50:27 -0500
From:      James <mlistbsd@icorp.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Compatibility problems with Compaq Proliant/RAID?
Message-ID:  <394C1CD3.9E99DDC0@icorp.net>
References:  <394C13FC.D23431DA@icorp.net>

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Btw, the controller card is the Compaq Smart 2DH Array Controller - is it
supported?

James wrote:

> I've got a Compaq Proliant 3000R server, with Compaq's 2-channel RAID
> controller installed.  I've been trying to get ANY version of FreeBSD to
> run on this system.  I'm not sure where the problem is.
>
> I was able to install 4.0 from the CD on the system when it was not
> running RAID.  I installed the RAID card and re-configured the drives
> and 3.3 would not recognize the drive; 4.0 did recognize the drive and
> would let me do the install but would crash on "makedev returns a
> non-zero value".
>
> I was able to create a boot floppy for the machine and try to install
> 4.0-RELEASE from ftp.freebsd.org and this seemed to get me farther,
> except after the initial downloading of files, just about anything
> forked would cause a core dump (sh was causing core dumps) so I couldn't
> do anything, and then upon re-booting the system, it could not find or
> boot the kernel.
>
> I'm not sure what the problem is.  Is it that FreeBSD does NOT support
> Compaq's RAID scsi card?    Any ideas.
>
> Thanks for your prompt response - I've installed the OS about 20 times
> in the last day and really want to get it to work with my raid5
> configuration from compaq.
>
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