From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 17 17:52:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ux.accesscom.net (ux.accesscom.net [204.181.176.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 56B1C37B5A8; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 17:52:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mlistbsd@icorp.net) Received: from p501.accesscom.net (icorp.net [206.160.4.1]) by ux(smtpd 2.1.3) with SMTP id smtp001425 for ; Sun, 18 Jun 00 00:52:03 GMT (envelope-from ) Message-ID: <394C1CD3.9E99DDC0@icorp.net> Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 19:50:27 -0500 From: James X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compatibility problems with Compaq Proliant/RAID? References: <394C13FC.D23431DA@icorp.net> Content-Length: 1397 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Btw, the controller card is the Compaq Smart 2DH Array Controller - is it supported? James wrote: > I've got a Compaq Proliant 3000R server, with Compaq's 2-channel RAID > controller installed. I've been trying to get ANY version of FreeBSD to > run on this system. I'm not sure where the problem is. > > I was able to install 4.0 from the CD on the system when it was not > running RAID. I installed the RAID card and re-configured the drives > and 3.3 would not recognize the drive; 4.0 did recognize the drive and > would let me do the install but would crash on "makedev returns a > non-zero value". > > I was able to create a boot floppy for the machine and try to install > 4.0-RELEASE from ftp.freebsd.org and this seemed to get me farther, > except after the initial downloading of files, just about anything > forked would cause a core dump (sh was causing core dumps) so I couldn't > do anything, and then upon re-booting the system, it could not find or > boot the kernel. > > I'm not sure what the problem is. Is it that FreeBSD does NOT support > Compaq's RAID scsi card? Any ideas. > > Thanks for your prompt response - I've installed the OS about 20 times > in the last day and really want to get it to work with my raid5 > configuration from compaq. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message