From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 23 0: 2:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zaltana.hermans.ca (h24-65-98-182.ed.shawcable.net [24.65.98.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E56137B428 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 00:02:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jhermansw2k (jhermans.inside [192.168.28.100]) by zaltana.hermans.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B244EC602; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 01:02:35 -0600 (MDT) From: "Jamie Hermans" To: "'Gabriel Rossetti'" , Subject: RE: Compaq Smart-2/E array controller error Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 01:02:36 -0600 Organization: hermans.ca Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 In-Reply-To: <200109222209120511.058D3C87@smtp.tiscalinet.ch> Disposition-Notification-To: "Jamie Hermans" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG On Behalf Of Gabriel Rossetti > Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 2:09 pm > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Compaq Smart-2/E array controller error > > Hello, > > I have a Compaq Smart-2/E array controller (rev A, v2.14) on my > prosignia server. I have tried to install FreeBSD 3.4, 4.0, 4.1, > and 4.3 on it but it crashes. I get a memory dump after the device > configuration, right when it finds the controller. It has the > following processor(the controller): Hi Gabriel... If you search the archives, you will notice that *I* had the exact same issue. There is no longer support for the Smart-2/E controller (or more generally, the EISA version of this controller.) My "solution" was to dig around for a PCI version of the controller, which IS supported. # dmesg | grep ida ida0: port 0x8000-0x80ff mem 0x42000000-0x43ffffff,0x40000000-0x400000ff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci1 ida0: drives=2 firm_rev=4.48 idad0: on ida0 idad0: 12279MB (25149120 sectors), blocksize=512 idad1: on ida0 idad1: 24563MB (50306400 sectors), blocksize=512 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/idad0s1a -- Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message