From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 26 23:27:55 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D11716A4CE for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 23:27:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hadar.amcc.com (hadar.amcc.com [192.195.69.168]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F189243D2D for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 23:27:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vkashyap@amcc.com) Received: from mailhost02.amcc.com ([192.195.69.49]) by hadar.amcc.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id I1HFUJ03.4XX; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 16:27:55 -0700 Received: (from vkashyap-pc [10.66.6.61]) by mailhost02.amcc.com (SMSSMTP 4.0.0.59) with SMTP id M2004072616292212351 ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 16:29:22 -0700 From: "Vinod Kashyap" To: Philip Murray Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 16:27:52 -0700 X-Sent-Folder-Path: Sent Items X-Mailer: Oracle Connector for Outlook 9.0.4 51114 (9.0.6627) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 11:59:39 +0000 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: Harald Schmalzbauer Subject: RE: 3Ware 9500 and disklabel X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 23:27:55 -0000 > >> > >>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 > = > = > = >