From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jan 1 23:04:00 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA18506 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 23:04:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles354.castles.com [208.214.167.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA18490; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 23:03:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA57322; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 23:00:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199901020700.XAA57322@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Calvin NG cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NetFinity 5500-41U, cannot detect SCSI controller In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 02 Jan 1999 15:03:28 +0800." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 23:00:41 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Greetings, > > Hi there. What a way to start a new year. > If it is a sin to cross-post, I beg your forgiveness, but feeling > a bit desperate here. > > problem: > Just got the above mentioned hardware, been trying to install 3.0 > on it. Tried with the normal floppy boot-image, and then the CAM > boot-floppy, but both was not able to detect the on-board > SCSI controller. > > background: > According to the hardware specs, the SCSI controller is a IBM > PCI ServRAID-3H/3L wide fast SCSI2, whatever that means. > I opened up the cover to take a peek inside, saw two Adaptec > AIC7880P chips in there. The ServeRAID controller is not supported, as explicitly noted in the FreeBSD-3.0 release notes. The controller uses the Adaptec chips internally, but these are not (AFAIK) available directly to the host system. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message