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Date:      Mon, 26 Jul 2004 16:27:52 -0700
From:      "Vinod Kashyap" <vkashyap@amcc.com>
To:        Philip Murray <pmurray@nevada.net.nz>
Cc:        Harald Schmalzbauer <h@schmalzbauer.de>
Subject:   RE: 3Ware 9500 and disklabel
Message-ID:  <I1HFUJ03.4XX@hadar.amcc.com>

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> >>
> >>Vinod Kashyap wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Can you try booting off the installation CD/floppies and running
> >>>sysinstall from there?
> >>>
> >>
> >>Ok, I tried to boot from
> >>	1) 5.2.1 i386 ISO w/ twa.ko loaded (from 3ware.com)
> >>	2) 5.2.1 i386 ISO w/o twa.ko
> >>	2) 5.2-CURRENT amd64 ISO from snapshots.se.freebsd.org
> >>	3) My own 5.2-CURRENT iso
> >>
> > =

> > =

> > Try using whatever method you used to boot at the time of installing
> > -CURRENT.
> > =

> =

> I managed to get it to boot from CD with the -CURRENT snapshot (my =

> problem was the bootloader didn't seem to like the machine =

> having serial =

> console redirect on in the BIOS). Now I can successfully FDisk and =

> Disklabel the volume. When the installer tries to run newfs =

> it hangs. It =

> shows me the dialog (the Running newfs -U -O2 /dev/da0s1) in =

> the first =

> pty and in the 2nd (or 3rd?) pty it has the first few lines =

> of the newfs =

> output but never starts printing out the (inode?) numbers.
> =


As I have written earlier to some mailing lists, twa has not been
tested on amd64 as yet, and is not supported by 3ware.  Since there
seem to be quite a few people interested in amd64 support, I am
trying to see what I can do about it.


> Just to make sure my card isn't dud I installed RHEL and used =

> the 64bit =

> kernel module from 3ware.com and it works fine.
> =

> Thanks for your help.
> =

> Philip
> =

> =

> =

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