From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 24 20:24:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA10802 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 20:24:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out2.ibm.net (out2.ibm.net [165.87.194.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA10796 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 20:24:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 166.72.151.167 (slip166-72-151-167.nd.us.ibm.net [166.72.151.167]) by out2.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id DAA06304; Fri, 25 Jul 1997 03:23:52 GMT Message-ID: <33D81C36.1FA26666@ibm.net> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 22:23:35 -0500 From: Jay Erickson Reply-To: Jay.Erickson@ibm.net Organization: Life X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 (Macintosh; I; 68K) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Dawson CC: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Compaq's Built in SCSI X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: <33D61D15.AA791100@ibm.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk O.K. Mark's Floppy image got be part way. It DID see the SMART array controller, but it didn't find the embedded SCSI controller. Here's more info on my setup. EISA slots 1,3,4,7 are empty slot 2 3Com 3C579 EISA Network Adapter slot 5 Compaq NetFlex-2 ENET-TR slot 6 SMART array controller embedded Compaq integrated 32-bit Fast-SCSI-2 Controller (IRQ 15) embedded Compaq Automatic Server Recovery (ASR) Here is a snipit from the console eisa0:2 <3COM 3C579-BNC EISA Network Adapter> eisa0:5 unknown device eisa0:6 unknown device eisa0:8 unknown device . . . What else shoult I be looking for during the boot? Should I try it WithOut the SMART array controller?? Thanks for the help so far.. Jay Mark Dawson wrote: > > > I want to install FreeBSD on a couple of Compaq Proliant 1000's with the > > built in SCSI controller or Compaq's Smart SCSI controller. The > > Installer kernel doesn't seem to recognize either. > > See for a boot floppy image and a > kernel for FreeBSD-2.2.2 that should recognise the Smart and Smart-2 > controllers on your Compaq box. > > Please see the README at the above location for further details and let > me know how you get on as its not been tested on a ProLiant 1000 before. > > Regards, > Mark