Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 16:43:59 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Proliant 5000 Message-ID: <20050202061359.GX49172@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNEEDEFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <20050201060917.GT49172@wantadilla.lemis.com> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNEEDEFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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--QQBmthHSezQuldOP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Tuesday, 1 February 2005 at 21:54:18 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >>>> >>>> 4 X 200MHz processors. >>>> 512Mb RAM >>>> Scsi hardware raid controller. >>> >>> That may be your problem. >> >> Depends on the RAID controller. Both my machines have RAID >> controllers (2DH). See >> http://www.lemis.com/grog/diary-dec2004.html#10: it seems that 5.1 >> panicked. I'm pretty sure I had no trouble with 5.3, though. >> >>> If the system has an EISA raid array card you cannot install >>> FreeBSD on it. There is a bug in the compaq raid driver it won't >>> work on eisa. >> >> I don't think these machines are *that* old. > > Greg, yes they are. Here's a writeup on the 5000: > > http://www.winnetmag.com/Windows/Article/ArticleID/159/159.html Yes, this is about the age I was expecting. The specs are pretty close to my 6500. I didn't realize, that the older RAID cards were EISA, but it's not clear from the article whether they were shipped with the 5000. > If he has an EISA raid card in there he can replace it with one of these: > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3D56091&item=3D574= 7208198&rd=3D1 > > which will probably boot FreeBSD just fine. Definitely. This is the 2DH I'm referring to above. > I don't mean to send you away, that auction lists $4 for the raid > card that should work. But I do understand that there are folks who > wouldn't even spend the $4. Look at the shipping costs. That's another $13 before you get started. Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. =20 For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --QQBmthHSezQuldOP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCAG+nIubykFB6QiMRAkfhAJ0bOLgqDcMumgdWwAypwsKPm5PJRgCfYICy TV3AsvFky+FYH1nzV6qASVw= =a6iG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --QQBmthHSezQuldOP--
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