From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 23 14:31:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from prince.inix.com (prince.inix.com [63.167.32.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FB6B37B401 for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 14:31:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pat@inix.com) Received: from prince.inix.com (prince.inix.com [63.167.32.68]) by prince.inix.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f5NLVJc27599; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 11:31:19 -1000 Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 11:31:18 -1000 (HST) From: Patrick Guerin To: Barbara Diederich Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell Poweredge 2550 with Adaptec AIC-7899 In-Reply-To: <3B350048.E1ADF374@electricfoundry.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Barbara, Install 4.3-STABLE and you'll be fine. That did the trick for me and 2 others on the list. Cheers, --pat On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Barbara Diederich wrote: > Dear all, > > I have attempted to load FreeBSD 4.3 onto the Dell Poweredge 2550 with > Raid Enabled Perc3-Di using an Adaptec AIC-7899 Ultra 3 SCSI 3 > Controller. > > I don't see this device listed in the generic kernel althought the 4.3 > release notes say that they support this hardware... and once I exit the > kernel config I do see this device being listed as I enter the > sysinstall menu... but, once I go to do the fdsk... no hard drives are > found! > > Unfortunately Dell and Adaptec specifically support Linux... and so > information on this problem is hard to find. > > Can you help? > > Thanks so much, > > Barbara Diederich > > > 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