From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 29 6:28: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from email.accessus.net (email.accessus.net [209.145.128.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D701537B41A for <questions@freebsd.org>; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 06:27:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [209.145.133.59] (account jkoenig@accessus.net HELO jwebmedia.com) by email.accessus.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.6) with ESMTP id 64195378; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 08:27:53 -0500 Message-ID: <3CCD4C2C.B42994EE@jwebmedia.com> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 08:35:40 -0500 From: Joseph Koenig <joe@jwebmedia.com> Reply-To: joe@jwebmedia.com Organization: jWeb New Media Design X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: That Computer Guy <yo@thatcomputerguy.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell Poweredge 1650/Perc 3/Di Controllers References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020429023131.00ad1098@echonyc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: <freebsd-questions.FreeBSD.ORG> List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive) List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-questions> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-questions> X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Be careful to check what RAID card Dell has installed, if applicable. Some of their new RAID cards are not compatible with FreeBSD at this point. To check if the card is compatible, go to: http://people.freebsd.org/~msmith/RAID/ Hope this helps, Joe That Computer Guy wrote: > > I've searched, read, googled ... all references seem to indicate that any > release after 4.3 should find the 'aac' devices from either the boot floppies > or the bootable CD ... > > I'm baffled - > > I've loaded FreeBSD v 5.0 onto a machine, built a kernel, and booted to > it too - no luck (I made certain option aac was enabled!) .. > > Is there some trick I don't know about? > Or is the Poweredge 1650 somehow built to disallow FreeBSD? > > Please ?!?!?!? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message