From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 21 3:37:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from camtech.net.au (goliath.camtech.net.au [203.5.73.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7200C37B900; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 03:37:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from me@camtech.net.au) Received: from dialup-ad-10-82.camtech.net.au ([203.28.1.210]) by camtech.net.au ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 22:07:07 +1030 Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 22:07:01 +1030 (CST) From: Matthew Sean Thyer X-Sender: me@dx4.my-unregistered-domain.com Reply-To: thyerm@camtech.net.au To: Mike Smith Cc: l.farr@epcdirect.co.uk, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mylex Support In-Reply-To: <200003102325.PAA01007@mass.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Are there any particular preparation processes one should go through when setting up a Mylex DAC960 RAID array ? (if so give me a pointer to the docs) Can I just purchase all the hardware, plug in the disks and boot the FreeBSD-4 install floppies ? (for a system to be booting from the array with no internal ATA devices) or Should I have an internal ATA hard disk with some evil OS on it such as Lose 9X or NT so as to run any kind of Mylex DOS/Windows preparation utilities ? On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > I have 4 different Mylex DAC960 controllers that I cannot install Current > > onto. (Tried from Late December to 20000307). Sysinstall seems to get the > > geometry wrong, and even telling sysinstall the "correct" geometry, it gives > > a "tied to write beyond end of drive" error. Booting from a running -current > > and formatting does the same. They all have the latest BIOS, and they have > > been tried with various drive combinations. Has anyone else got this to work > > successfully or is it just me?. > > Obviously; you're actually the _only_ person I've heard from with this > problem. > > > And if it is just me, anyone got any ideas? I have been pestering Mike Smith > > about this for ages, and have probably driven him mad! > > More or less. As I've said - I have no idea what's going on for you at > the moment; everything here "just works" like it should. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message