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Subject: Re: need you help-freebsd 4.2
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On Tuesday 11 October 2005 03:07 am, Yi_Xu@dell.com wrote:
> Hi FreeBSD HELPER:
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> One of our customers wants to install freebsd4.2 on DELL PE2850. When
> they install FreeBSD 4.11 it's ok. But when they install freebsd4.2,
> FreeBSD 4.2 didn't found SCSI disk. Customer has their own software
> developed on FreeBSD 4.2. So they want to install FreeBSD 4.2 on DELL
> PE2850 server. Could you give some advice?
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> The SCSI controller on PE2850 is LSI53C1030.
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> Thanks !
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> Xuyi
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> Dell ASG TSR

FreeBSD 4.11 should run 4.2 binaries just fine if you install the 'compat4x' 
distribution.

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