From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 19 01:01:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34E2C16A4A7 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:01:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jahilliya@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 538B743D70 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:00:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jahilliya@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id m7so480045nzf for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 18:00:58 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=VJPEno0nmk6TFXmQdIICL1MLCvtJTsW30cYiIk9h8Ga83DWGciCBHTsPfRNtilz2QMzjXVn7cpZYPKwcPgMGsA1AsGp5jLk5FJAGuoLem858sQ46zgtXchAKVCap/El2w6Gr9RD2jweD6UJkL/BNYRzQ9dGjZjnBSU/k7Jjqtpo= Received: by 10.36.91.2 with SMTP id o2mr1129593nzb; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 18:00:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.37.15.74 with HTTP; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 18:00:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 09:00:58 +0800 From: Jahilliya To: "John Kozubik" In-Reply-To: <20060618174555.M730@kozubik.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060618174555.M730@kozubik.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Ensel Sharon , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please help - adaptec 2820sa not allowing installation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:01:00 -0000 On 6/19/06, John Kozubik wrote: > > > On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Jahilliya wrote: > > > Try hitting scroll lock and then page up to view the dmesg or go to > > the emergency console and run dmesg to see if it picked up any aac > > devices. You may need to load the module yourself, you should be able > > to do this from the emergency console (not sure tho). > > > > I've steered clear of the *20SA series of cards from Adaptec (mainly > > buying the 2410SA) for the two facts, SATA2 isn't listed anywhere on > > the hardware list and only the xx10SA series SATA cards are listed. > > > Yes, that's a good point - which is why I was very cautious and made > doubly sure to ask very clearly on this mailing list "can I install > freebsd 6.1 on a 2820sa even though it is not in the HCL" and I was > assured that the answer was yes. > > So you are saying you think that the 6.1-RELEASE iso does not have aac > built into it ? After 4-5 years of it being in every install media, even > floppies, you think it suddenly is just not there anymore ? I find that > difficult to believe... > > I'll check the dmesg in scroll lock to be sure, but I am pretty sure it > comes up with nothing aac-related. I'm saying it's a possibility if you're not seeing anything AAC related in the dmesg and you should make sure that it is in the kernel or loaded as a module by running kldload (kldload will give some error about symbol already existing if it is built into the kernel).