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From: "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com>
To: "Anthony O'Meara" <atom@atom.no-ip.org>
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Subject: Re: Running FreeBSD on Digital Server 5305
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On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 03:32:40PM +1200, Anthony O'Meara wrote:
> Has anyone got Digital Server 5305 working with any version of FreeBSD?
> 
> At first I had assumed it was problems with the RAID controller,
> but I have now tried several different RAID and SCSI controllers, and
> several SCSI disks yet FreeBSD will not install,
> it cant find the disks or it sees them but wont let me partition them or (in
> the case of the Mylex RAID controller) I need to load the mlx driver from
> the drivers.flp but FreeBSD cant find the floppy drive but I have just
> booted from the floppy!
> 
> Can anyone help?

Please post in full details how you cannot get FreeBSD installed and
booting on your DS 5305.  Including a console log of kernel output and
any error messages.