Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 19:27:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryce Newall <data@dreamhaven.net> To: Chris Shenton <cshenton@uucom.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install can't find SCSI disks on Dell PowerEdge2300 Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.981016192248.19668l-100000@ds9.dreamhaven.org> In-Reply-To: <86yaqg420t.fsf@samizdat.uucom.com>
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On 16 Oct 1998, Chris Shenton wrote: > Trying to install FreeBSD on a new Dell PowerEdge2300. It's a P2 with > two on-board Adaptec SCSI controllers, a 7860 with the CDROM and a > 7890 with two Seagate 34573LC disks. I've tried 2.2.6-RELEASE and > 2.2.7-RELEASE and they both see the CDROM and boot from it, but when > trying to select disks, the install procedure reports there's no disk. Are you installing from CD-ROM, or booting with a floppy and installing over the net? If the latter, you could go into your BIOS and temporarily disable the 7860 controller, and then FreeBSD should recognize the 7890. I suspect that what's happening is that FreeBSD is scanning for an adapter, finding it (the 7860), and is not scanning for any additional adapters. Hence, it's not finding your hard drives that are hooked up to the second adapter (the 7890). Would I be correct in assuming that your PE2300 doesn't have the RAID backplane? We have a 2300 at work, but it has the Dell PowerEdge Expandable Raid Controller (PERC) in it, so it really has 3 adapters (and the hard drives are hooked up to the PERC), but only 2 are Adaptec. The CD-ROM is hooked up to the 7860, and nothing is on the 7890. Once you've got FreeBSD installed, then when you build your custom kernel and enable support for your Adaptec controllers (normally adding the line "controller ahc0" to your kernel configuration file), make sure you add 2 lines in, that is: controller ahc0 controller ahc1 That will tell the kernel to look for 2 adapters, rather than just one. Hope that helps out some! ********************************************************************** * Bryce Newall * Email: data@dreamhaven.net * * WWW: http://home.dreamhaven.net/~data * * "Insanity takes its toll. Please have exact change." * ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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