From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Apr 23 19:55:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (adsl-63-202-179-64.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.179.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A3DD37B718 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 19:55:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA56743; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 20:03:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200004240303.UAA56743@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Mutex Records USA" Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mylex Extremeraid 1100 booting? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 23 Apr 2000 19:11:36 PDT." <20000424021136.31740.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 20:03:05 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I am tinkering with a Mylex Extremeraid 1100 card, on one of those > Supermicro motherboards (no scsi on board, just on the card...) > The Mylex card reports it's self as DAC1164P, FW Ver. 5.07-79 > > The BIOS seemed to format the RAID as RAID5 (3 Seagate Barracuda drives, one > per interface) and the FTP install seemed to go just fine. > > However... > > When I come back up for 'first boot', the system seems to hang at the > Freebsd Bootloader prompt. F1 FreeBSD... and it hangs. > > Any ideas? Try flipping the geometry mode in the controller's BIOS setup; it needs to match what was detected when you install (except when you've had another OS on there and sysinstall gets it wrong). There may be issues with this though - to be safe, use the 2GB mode all around. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message