Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:38:37 -0700 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: "Michael L. Squires" <mikes@siralan.org> Cc: Erich Dollansky <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help with Booting Message-ID: <E55B4C50-D5D3-4ED3-A898-053A37D73501@lafn.org> In-Reply-To: <20110423153718.K15816@familysquires.net> References: <C249647E-1186-4AC2-8028-2C09326F77F0@lafn.org> <201104231620.16475.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> <F205AE44-596F-4D85-AB9F-902590465CA3@lafn.org> <201104231704.14910.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> <E3150D9A-8114-46B9-AEC9-1CB9B3E7461E@lafn.org> <20110423153718.K15816@familysquires.net>
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On 23 April 2011, at 12:45, Michael L. Squires wrote: > I haven't seen a verbose dmesg output booting from a non-RAID hard = drive. >=20 > I have 7.4-STABLE working on several multi-CPU Opteron systems, but = they are all Tyan motherboards. Are Rioworks/Arima still in business? I believe so. Their web page is there, but mostly in Chinese. >=20 > Rather than use the on-board controllers I've just bought some of the = LSI 300-8X PCI-X RAID controllers which are cheap and work very well = with SATA 2 drives (and FreeBSD). The Adaptec 2610 series are even = cheaper, but they > are only SATA 1. These boxes have no additional room for expansion cards. They have 4 = apparently hot-swappable drives in the front.=
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