From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 12 15:45:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC95616A4DA for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:45:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail2.speakeasy.net (mail2.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8F1143D2D for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:45:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 11343 invoked from network); 12 Oct 2004 15:45:40 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 12 Oct 2004 15:45:40 -0000 Received: from [10.50.40.210] (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i9CFjSRS091976; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 11:45:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 11:19:27 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200410121119.27359.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: "Gordan Remus \(Vox Mundi\)" Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.X and Intel E7520 chipset problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:45:41 -0000 On Tuesday 12 October 2004 10:32 am, Gordan Remus (Vox Mundi) wrote: > Recently we have purchased a Supermicro X6DHR-IG2 motherboard > based on Intel E7520 chipset with 2x3.0GHz Xeons and are unable > to install FreeBSD 4.X on it. > It seems that FreeBSD 4.X is not recognizing the chipset > and therefore it's unable to recognize Mylex AcceleRAID 160 controller. > > Everything is working fine on FreeBSD 5.X, but unfortunately > the application we need to run on top of that is made specifically > for FreeBSD 4.X. > > Is there any chance that Intel E7520 chipset will be supported > on some future 4.X releases or is there some kind of patch/workaround ? What specifically does 4.x not recognize? Does it only see one host-PCI bridge when there are more than one and the missing devices are on the other host bridges? If so, can you install 5.x on it and get an acpidump output that I can look at? -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org