From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jun 30 16: 1:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4407D37C2C5 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 16:01:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net) Received: from joshpaet (hutch-251.hutchtel.net [206.10.67.179]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id SAA09201; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 18:01:12 -0500 (CDT) From: "Josh Paetzel" To: "Lint^^" Cc: Subject: RE: installation on Dell Precision 620 (AIC-7899) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 17:53:45 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: Lint^^ [mailto:lint@satan.dyn.reject.org] > Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 1:40 PM > To: Josh Paetzel > Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: installation on Dell Precision 620 (AIC-7899) > > > On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Josh Paetzel wrote: > > > > > > thanks for the reply josh... i just have one (dumb) question for > > > you... how exactly should i go about disabling RAID mode and > putting the > > > disks into straight SCSI mode? i've tried un-defining any and all RAID > > > arrays in the configuration tool that you can boot into off that 'dell > > > resource cd', i also tried making each disk its own RAID0, > and making a > > > RAID0 consisting of both disks... also standalone.. no dice > anywhere... am > > > i messing something up there? > > > > > > adam > > > > > On the machine we had, the aic-7899 was configured in the BIOS > settings. If > > you tell it to be a SCSI controller then FBSD should pick it up at boot > > time....no kernel mods needed. AFAIK the RAID mode of that chip is not > > supported by FBSD and that is why you can't get it to find your devices. > > > > > > > > > > > apparently on the precision 620, you can't configure the 7899 in the BIOS > (other than disable/enable)... but the ARO-1302 RAID controller (the > offending part here) is positioned in an expansion slot, while the 7899 > SCSI controller is embedded onto the motherboard. i can't remember if the > SCSI cable connecting the drives is plugged into the RAID controller or > not, but if they are, the solution seems to be pull them out of there, > plug them directly into the SCSI ports on the motherboard, and optionally > yank the ARO-1302 card until such time as a driver is > implemented. regarding SMP, i seem to remember previous threads on this > list saying that support for these SCSI chips _and_ SMP at the same time > was backported into 4.0-STABLE sometime in april/may ?? > > adam > yes, that should solve the problem. Josh > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message