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Date:      Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:05:00 -0500
From:      "Sean O'Connell" <sean@stat.Duke.EDU>
To:        Shawn Barnhart <swb@grasslake.net>, FreeBSD stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Dell PERC 3 support?
Message-ID:  <20010123100500.G59802@stat.Duke.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <001601c0854a$480efdb0$b8209fc0@marlowe>; from swb@grasslake.net on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 08:39:24AM -0600
References:  <20010123012109.O26076@fw.wintelcom.net> <20010123091220.A59802@stat.Duke.EDU> <001601c0854a$480efdb0$b8209fc0@marlowe>

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Shawn Barnhart stated:
: Have you gotten an aac card to work under STABLE?  I tried with the
: following procedure within a week of the MFC of the aac driver.  Card make
: was a HP Netraid 4M connected to a HP rackstorage/12 (6 disks, raid 5):
: 
: 1) build STABLE kernel on updated STABLE machine
: 2) grab 5.0 snapshot (4.2 snap had no aac support) install disk, do install
: with 4.2 CD
: 3) on boot, copy 4.2-STABLE kernel with aac support to new system
: 4) reboot with 4.2 stable kernel, cvsup, make buildworld, buildkernel,
: instal, etc.
: 5) reboot
: 6) filesystem refuses to mount, "operation timed out..."
: 
: During the cvsup operation the system would "pause" for 15-30 seconds for no
: apparent reason.  A console switch to a systat -vmstat screen shows the aac
: disk at 100%.  They'd stay at 100% and then the process would continue.  I
: got the same kind of results during buildworld and installworld.
: 
: My guess is that either my install process was too smart for my own good, or
: the driver didn't like my card.

Shawn-

I have been using a -current. However, -stable should support the
controllers. Let me try the latest stable SNAP.

Hmmm... GENERIC from the 20010122 SNAPSHOT found the controller
and the containers, but sysinstall hasn't been trained to install
on the containers :(

S
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