Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:10:55 +0100 From: Stefan Cars <stefan@snowfall.se> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: MegaRAID management Message-ID: <41C9E2DF.8010405@snowfall.se> In-Reply-To: <20041222200906.GA24094@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <41C9CFD7.4020303@snowfall.se> <20041222200255.GB15881@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <41C9D35C.1090408@snowfall.se> <20041222200906.GA24094@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
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Hi! Thanks, that worked well. Going to another issue then. Does anyone know if there is any support for some management of the MegaRAID (perc 4e/Si)in FreeBSD ? Kind Regards, Stefan Cars Brooks Davis wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 09:04:44PM +0100, Stefan Cars wrote: > >>Hi! >> >>Thanks for the info, where can I find more information on how to do that >>? Could you provide an example of how the devd.conf (or what files >>needed to be changed) would look ? > > > The devd.conf changes should be a fairly simple modification of the > existing rules (see "When a USB keyboard arrives") in the file. Mostly > changing 1 to 2 and 0 to 1. You'll want to set the rc.conf variable > "keyboard" to /dev/kdb1 so it uses the DRAC keyboard by default. > > -- Brooks > > >>Kind Regards, >>Stefan Cars >> >> >>Brooks Davis wrote: >> >>>On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 08:49:43PM +0100, Stefan Cars wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Hi! >>>> >>>>I have some trouble using keyboards (both PS/2 and/or USB) on our 15 new >>>>PE 1850's. The installation goes fine (the PS/2 works, USB does not) and >>>>single user works OK (with PS/2), but normal boot does not work, it >>>>seems it attaches the keyboard to the DRAC cards (it identifies itself >>>>as ukbd0). I found a post regarding this >>>>(http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-September/038879.html). >>>> >>>>My question is then, is there anyway I can make this work so I can use a >>>>regular keyboard (PS/2 or USB) and the DRAC, maybe by fixing so when i >>>>attach a USB it disconnectes the DRAC and attaches the USB ?. Disable >>>>the keyboard for the DRAC is something I don't want to do since the >>>>reason we bought DRACS to them is the possibility to control them >>>>remote, I have some pressure of people wanting us to run RedHat on them >>>>and I don't want to be forced to do that becuase of this stupid little >>>>thing. >>> >>> >>>The correct behavior is currently unobtainable, but you may be able to >>>get a sufficent approximation working. At the moment, you'll only be >>>able to use the PS/2 keyboard in single user mode because syscons is >>>going to always pick it and you can't switch unless you have a keyboard >>>or are in multi-user mode. However, in multiuser you can change >>>devd.conf to have a different behavior. It would be fairly simple to >>>make /dev/kbd1 the primary keyboard and have the appearence of ukbd1 >>>cause /dev/kdb2 to become and primary. >>> >>>Hopefully we'll have a real solution soon, but I haven't found the time >>>to work on it as much as I'd like. >>> >>>-- Brooks >>>
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