From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 2 06:14:04 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E0FE16A4CE for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 06:14:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AEE743D2D for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 06:14:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id B5F8185696; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 16:43:59 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 16:43:59 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Ted Mittelstaedt Message-ID: <20050202061359.GX49172@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20050201060917.GT49172@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="QQBmthHSezQuldOP" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: Brad cc: Lowell Gilbert cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Proliant 5000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 06:14:04 -0000 --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--