From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 31 1: 4:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (sat.dis.org [216.240.44.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2095737B401 for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 01:04:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6V84ud01770; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 01:04:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200107310804.f6V84ud01770@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Tim Kellers Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PERC 3 Dell 2500 and FreeBSD 4.3 stable In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 30 Jul 2001 15:58:41 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 01:04:56 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Has anyone gotten the PERC 3 RAID controller to work using FreeBSD 4.3? There's no such thing as a "PERC 3". You probably have a 3/Di with one of the eleven dozen random PCI IDs that Dell keeps adding to these machines. Try a 4.3-STABLE boot floppy; I keep adding them as fast as people tell me about them. > It looks like I might have to build a boot disk (a la kern.flp) with a > precompiled kernel with the appropriate PERC 2/3 OPTIONS. No; the drivers for both the AMI and Adaptec "PERC 3*" controller families are already on the disk. > I haven't done this before and was wondering if there is any documentation > for building a custom boot floppy? It's very rarely necessary; and these days, all you do is mount the floppy, delete /kernel.gz and replace it with your own kernel. If the driver you want isn't already in the kernel, you don't even have to do that; just put the .ko file on another floppy and use "load ". -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message