From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 23 12:48: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from sumatra.americantv.com (sumatra.americantv.com [208.139.222.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 220BA14CD0 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 12:48:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jlemon@americantv.com) Received: from right.PCS (right.PCS [148.105.10.31]) by sumatra.americantv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA19932; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 14:47:00 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by right.PCS (8.8.5/8.6.4) id OAA10690; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 14:46:59 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19990923144658.29434@right.PCS> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 14:46:58 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon To: Warner Losh Cc: freebsd@osterskov.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with Compaq SMART-2SL array controller References: <199909231707.MAA21789@free.pcs> <199909231926.NAA42815@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.61.1 In-Reply-To: <199909231926.NAA42815@harmony.village.org>; from Warner Losh on Sep 09, 1999 at 01:26:35PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sep 09, 1999 at 01:26:35PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <199909231707.MAA21789@free.pcs> Jonathan Lemon writes: > : It appears so. The IDA driver needs to stomp on the WD driver's > : vectors in order to boot off of the RAID controller. It seems that > : something changed so that wd is getting probed after the ida driver > : now, and removing the vectors. > > Is this so that it could mount root? In 3.x the only way to do this > is to have a special disk label type. I've hacked things to get fla > bootable on -stable using this method. The sysinstall program hasn't > been updated, however. Yes. The IDA driver will be happy with it's own device nodes (/dev/ida....), but last time I checked, the boot/loader would only understand root devices of wd() or da(). I understand that Soren's ad() driver has the same problem. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message