From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 2 15:53:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu [198.82.67.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D8B614A05 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 15:52:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (john [10.0.0.2]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA94752; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 18:51:38 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <199912022351.SAA94752@server.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 18:51:38 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: "Network Admin [JPeterson]" Subject: RE: AMI MegaRAID and FreeBSD Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 02-Dec-99 Network Admin [JPeterson] wrote: > We recently purchased a Dell PowerEdge 2300 and wish to run FreeBSD on it. > I was unable to get FreeBSD to recognize the RAID drives, however RedHat 6.0 > was able to see it.. Does anyone have any ideas on how to get FreeBSD to be > able to utilize the RAID array? The hardware card controls the RAID so BSD > should only see it as one big drive and send stuff to it via the card.. > RedHat sees the controller as an AMI MegaRAID Mike Smith has been working on the drivers for the MegaRAID. Search the archives of the -stable mailing list for more info. Note that you can't boot from a RAID under BSD, so you will need a seperate disk for the OS itself to go on. > Thanks! - Below is the bootup information that I am shown by the controllers > > PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller BIOS1.25 May 27, 1998 > Compyright(c) AMERICAN MEGATRENDS INC. > Press to Run Configuration Utility > > Host Adapter-0 Type : PERC 2/SC. Firmware Version ED4D DRAM Size =16MB > 1 Logical Drives found on the Host Adapter > 1 Logicam Drive(s) handled by BIOS. > > Also we have: > Adaptec AIC-7890 (empty) > Adaptec AIC-7860 (with SCSI CD-Rom and SCSI 12/24Gig Tape) -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message