Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 11:25:53 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Cloud <ashtray1@home.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD with IBM ServeRaid II on a Netfinity 5500 Message-ID: <19990319112553.G429@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <36F11ED1.55A9BC91@home.com>; from Cloud on Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 10:42:09AM -0500 References: <36F11ED1.55A9BC91@home.com>
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[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Thursday, 18 March 1999 at 10:42:09 -0500, Cloud wrote: > -A while ago I wrote: > > "I am in the process of ordering a IBM Netfinity server 5500, and > i will be running freebsd.The server has on-board IBM Serverraid > II raid controller, which uses the AIC-7880P adaptec chipset. I > see that freebsd supports the 7895 chipset, and the two are very > similar (the 7895 supports ultra2wide scsi, the 7880 only wide > scsi). I am wondering if the 7880P will be detected during the > install, or generally if this chipset will work under FreeBSD." > > -I have been told that it works: > > > "Yes it will work quite nicely. > > <snip from my dmesg> > ahc0: <Adaptec aic7880 Ultra SCSI adapter> rev 0x00 int a irq 17 on pci0.9.0 > ahc0: aic7880 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs" > > -but that it doesnt work because there is a powerPC chip in it : Ah, but you didn't mention this. > IBM ServeRaid controllers isn't supported I'm afraid :( Yes there are > some Adaptec chips integrated onto motherboard but there's also one > PowerPC processor which plays important role, so I don't believe > FreeBSD is able to use the onboard Adaptec chip. Actually, I don't > know, but I have two NetFinity 5500 laying around here and maybe I > can boot one of them in the evening with FreeBSD. Both of them run > LoseNT, ick. > -- I'm a little confused here. What of the above was quoted, and what did you write for the first time in this message? All I saw was the message from Nathan Ahlstrom, which was just the dmesg excerpt. > I Just had this box delivered and we cant return it. My Boss is an IBM > and NT freak, and it took some heavy convincing to get him to let me use > BSD for our web-hosting machine. So, it looks like now i will have to > use winnt. <sniff> .Suicide is looking pretty good right now. Had I > known this controller wouldn't work, I would have ordered the 5000 > instead and put a Mylex or DTP raid controller. Oh well, think ill go > buy some whisky and sit under a bridge, contemplate the next year using > winnt for httpd, ftp, natd, ipfw, mail, and 100 virt domains or so. > > If ANYBODY has ANY tiny gleam of insight on any solution i might have > available, i will be your eternally humble and greatefull servant. Well, if you describe what the problem is, it would help. I'm assuming that the comment about the PowerPC chip comes from your message. That in itself doesn't cause a problem. The real question is whether the controller has an Adaptec 7880 interface. Does it? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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