Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:09:59 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Gary <gdriggs@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.1rc2 and ZFS Message-ID: <20100708170959.78453243@anacreon.physics.wisc.edu> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim0-mVJa-BbPAvKJIX2StyIOvk3gTlvPfAnRyWi@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTim0-mVJa-BbPAvKJIX2StyIOvk3gTlvPfAnRyWi@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 14:28:26 -0700 Gary <gdriggs@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a PCI-X model of the PowerMac7,3 (dual 2.0 GHz procs) and am > able to boot the CD for RC2 but it does not detect my drives. I'm > trying again with 8.0 but I know the drives work because I'm replacing > a working Linux install. Can you try doing a verbose boot (boot -v from the loader)? Also, entering the fixit shell from sysinstall and running 'gpart show' would be interesting. > Also, off the top of their head does anyone know if the ZFS port is > current as the latest release now supports PPC architecture. The ZFS port may work, but with suboptimal performance due to the lack of 64-bit atomics on 32-bit PowerPC. I do not know if it has been tested, however. It will work fully with a 64-bit kernel (64-bit support is not in the 8 release series, however). -Nathan
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