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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:43:48 -0500
From: Graham Dunn <gdunn@inscriber.com>
To: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
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Subject: Re: AIC-7899 Raid support in 4.2-Release
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hmm ...

Well, if I interrupt the boot and type lsdev at the "ok" prompt, I get:

disk @ 0x10918
	disk0:	BIOS Drive A:
	 disk0a: FFS 2MB (0-5760)
[etc]

	disk2:	BIOS Drive C:
	 disk2s1: ext2fs 23MB (63-48195)
	 [other slices]

	disk3: BIOS Drive D:
	 disk3s1: ext2fs 10024MB (62-20531070)
	 [second slice]

pxe @ 0xef70

ok

So the drives are being seen by the kernel, but not the install. :/

Will I still have to install on a single drive, or is this sufficient
information to help?

thanks,
Graham
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 12:31:48PM -0500, Matthew Emmerton wrote:
> > I'm trying to install on a dell poweredge 2450 with the AIC-7899
> > controller in RAID 5 mode. Initial install claims that it can't find any
> > drives ... the controller appears in the supported hardware list, but
> > various searches on the web have left the impression that it's not
> > supported in RAID mode.
> 
> Many Adaptec cards give different PCI identifiers in RAID mode vs standard
> mode.  Also, generic Adaptec cards tend to give different PCI identifiers
> than their OEM counterparts.
> 
> If you could install onto a plain-jane 9GB drive (hooked up to a 2940 or
> something other than the 7899 controller), then the device probe upon
> startup would tell us how FreeBSD is detecting your 7899 card in RAID mode.
> 
> --
> Matt Emmerton

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