From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 28 8:23:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C44237B401 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 08:23:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from server42.ilap.com (server42.ilap.com [216.223.128.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9BAB43ED4 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 08:23:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phorechuk@docucom.ca) Received: from horechup ([216.223.150.66]) by server42.ilap.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3/Internet Light and Power (tm) * http://ilap.com (tm)) with SMTP id LAA25793; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 11:23:26 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <069001c296fa$4e460fc0$73f8d7a5@docucom.ca> Reply-To: "Paul Horechuk" From: "Paul Horechuk" To: "Marc G. Fournier" , "Scott Long" Cc: "Long, Scott" , References: <20021128114902.M16724-100000@hub.org> Subject: Re: Upgrade from 4.6-STABLE (July) to 4.7-STABLE loses SCSI card? Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 11:22:10 -0500 Organization: DocuCom Imaging Solutions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4920.2300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4920.2300 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG We recently installed 2 x235 servers. Although these are NOT destined for any BSD installs 8-(, I did look at the bus structure. There is 1 non-PCI64 slot, closest to the PSU. I had to install an Adaptec 2944UW (HVDS) card and this is the only slot that would accept it. We got lucky! I'm not sure this applies to your x series, but take a closer look. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: "Scott Long" Cc: "Long, Scott" ; Sent: November 28, 2002 10:50 AM Subject: Re: Upgrade from 4.6-STABLE (July) to 4.7-STABLE loses SCSI card? > On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Scott Long wrote: > > > You can put a 32-bit card into a 64-bit slot so long as it will fit. > > There are keys on the connector that indicate 3.3V and 5V requirements > > for the card and slot. If the card is keyed the same way as the slot, > > then it will work regardless if it's 64 bit or not. Even though the > > ServeRAID card isn't supported (yet), it would be interesting to put it > > in and see what pciconf says about it. If it doesn't show up there > > either, then it's pretty good proof of a PCI problem. > > didn't think of the pciconf after putting the ServeRAID in ... will go try > that now ... > > > I'm assuming that when you upgraded that you didn't blow away /var/log > > from the original install? If so, would you have an old > > /var/log/messages that recorded the boot messages from when it worked? > > Thought about that, actually ... the server was up for so long that the > "good boot" messages file had been long rotated :( > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message