From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 14 23:07:31 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A5E816A420 for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:07:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org) Received: from smtp-out0.tiscali.nl (smtp-out0.tiscali.nl [195.241.79.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E70E43D4C for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:07:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org) Received: from [82.171.39.195] (helo=guido.klop.ws) by smtp-out0.tiscali.nl with smtp (Tiscali http://www.tiscali.nl) id 1EbnQ9-0000oJ-O5 for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 00:07:29 +0100 Received: (qmail 59292 invoked from network); 14 Nov 2005 23:07:24 -0000 Received: from localhost.thuis.klop.ws (HELO outgoing.local) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.thuis.klop.ws with SMTP; 14 Nov 2005 23:07:24 -0000 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <000001c5e90e$e45bc2c0$0a01a8c0@DIGNUS> Message-ID: From: "Ronald Klop" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-8859-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 00:07:23 +0100 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Opera M2/8.50 (FreeBSD, build 1358) Subject: Re: 6.0-RELEASE Dell PE 850 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:07:31 -0000 On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:51:36 +0100, Vivek Khera wrote: > > On Nov 14, 2005, at 6:31 AM, Johan Kooijman wrote: > >> After ordering a stack of Dell PE 850 boxes I found out, by experience, >> that >> 6.0-RELEASE doesn't work with it. It does recognize the S-ATA >> controller, >> but install says it can't find any disks. > > there was some discussion about this on the pfSense (firewall software > built on 6.0) a week or so ago. Apparently there is some kernel patch > that allows the PE850 to work. perhaps digging thru the pfSense mailing > list archives will help find it. > > Not sure the status of having that patch merged back into the FreeBSD > main code. I certainly hope it will be, given how popular these boxes > are. If the patch is submitted as a PR it will help a lot I think. -- Ronald Klop Amsterdam, The Netherlands