From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jan 11 14:20: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from prolynx.com (prolynx.com [207.174.126.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0893015283 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 14:19:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from BOFH@prolynx.com) Received: from prolynx.com ([207.174.174.168]) by prolynx.com with ESMTP (IPAD 2.52/64) id 5826100; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 15:19:55 -0700 Message-ID: <387BAC8C.F36DCE00@prolynx.com> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 22:19:56 +0000 From: BOFH Reply-To: DILLIGAF@post.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Installing on COMPAQ 1850/5000 with SMART2/2E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org General question: After searching the FAQ's, HOWTO's, -scsi, -tech, -questions mail archives and finding http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~md/ida/ and http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/ida/ I am still left with the problem: How do I (successfully) create a bootable kernel that supports the Compaq SMART2 RAID controller well enough to perform a new install? I've seen plenty of references to _having_ done this, with no particular pointers on _how_ to do this. I have tried several different variants of making the ida devices build, but unfortunately I'm in a bit of a Cache-22 in that I can't get a native implementation of the device files until I can get one of the Compaq's up and running. The kernels I've managed to build so far boot, see the NIC and FDD, but are still lost on the SCSI-RAID. I am using FreeBSD v3.4-STABLE on a DELL 2300, with the standard development options installed (gcc, perl, etc.). Any help in either creating this or pointers to the correct documentation will be appreciated. Thanks, - Ed To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message