From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 4 22:03:36 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 868F5106564A for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2012 22:03:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vrwmiller@gmail.com) Received: from mail-lb0-f182.google.com (mail-lb0-f182.google.com [209.85.217.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 073098FC14 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2012 22:03:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lb0-f182.google.com with SMTP id b5so973202lbd.13 for ; Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:03:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=g1J+6/BARMDAEeaxifM6S05h8zAMoq9ZJS2VfYEp4Y8=; b=lI+TppAlKj85sxmFNXX64gaJXJGbL2hikPjsd+3wLfFd7sEej5E+q2F2i1qCHvs9uy LiYLYlyeMN/b9x1wMfIGMYjgJBZ/616AMD1IaUai027i/MeIClDNiBmywEiQhnzgd3v/ PAzaNmBXInu91Fyi5SCA/xhQspHKOt+qc96iXMtVsXo2Q5k7sNQ3+9FdJAJBINdfCqw6 TO+spNUUPrhW06SbBfuN5FJ4PP3GeBww+56av+5E5Tp0OAlO2IB1PAjTK2GODxD+D1NU l3f7PZ8nPgfEWVovkynQFr7x5QEK3/3rErGG6cAZocWUsmi3HCJl4w/4N7v/6ablAioW 3BGQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.152.110.74 with SMTP id hy10mr5262595lab.54.1349388214699; Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:03:34 -0700 (PDT) Sender: vrwmiller@gmail.com Received: by 10.112.144.198 with HTTP; Thu, 4 Oct 2012 15:03:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1A15A9DAF0634AF699ED40F6DC23B8C7@win2snvu0x4eg9> References: <1A15A9DAF0634AF699ED40F6DC23B8C7@win2snvu0x4eg9> Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 18:03:34 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: HYCzupkK5d2DZ_J8xDRgFySXHgg Message-ID: From: Rick Miller To: Joseph Mays Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.3 with LSI MegaRAID 9265-8i 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: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 22:03:36 -0000 On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Joseph Mays wrote: > Trying to load FreeBSD 8.3 on to an LSI MegaRAID 9265i volume -- 3 3TB disks > for a total volume size of 8.8 TB. The installer program runs from the DVD > (we are using 8.3 because we couldn't get a 9.0 boot disk to load at all, > actually.) But when it gets to the point of creating partitions it says no > hard disk is present. Is this something I should have expected, or am I > missing something? That device is based on the SAS2208 chip. I had the same issue (different card, same chip). Check out the blog post below, it may help. http://blog.hostileadmin.com/2012/05/22/freebsd-on-dell-poweredge-12g-servers/ -- Take care Rick Miller