From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 18 19:46:33 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77C6F10656D5 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:46:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dweimer@orscheln.com) Received: from proxy2.orscheln.com (proxy2.orscheln.com [216.106.0.225]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC9178FC12 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:46:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dweimer@orscheln.com) Received: from neuman.orscheln.oi.local (neuman.orscheln.com [10.20.10.160]) by proxy2.orscheln.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n2IJAEQ2090792 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:10:14 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dweimer@orscheln.com) Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:10:14 -0500 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: FreeBSD 7.1 on Dell PowerEdge 850 Thread-Index: Acmn/SqmOOm/xplrTpW7+bY7Q3wQOA== From: "Dean Weimer" To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: FreeBSD 7.1 on Dell PowerEdge 850 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:46:34 -0000 Just wondering if anyone is running FreeBSD 7.1 on a Dell PowerEdge 850 with SATA raid, I have 5.4 installed on one now, because there was a problem with the Intel ich5 sata chipset on 6.x branch at the time I built the server. I don't remember the error message, but I believe the problem had something to do with the chipset not returning a command that FreeBSD was waiting for so it would hang on boot trying to mount the hard drives. It was quite annoying though in that the entire installation runs but then it fails to boot after the restart. Which is why I was hoping someone else could tell me if FreeBSD 7.1 will run before I wipe out the existing 5.4 installation. =20 In case it helps here is the output about the chipset from pciconf -lv =20 pcib6@pci0:30:0: class=3D0x060401 card=3D0x00000050 = chip=3D0x244e8086 rev=3D0xe1 hdr=3D0x01 vendor =3D 'Intel Corporation' device =3D '82801BA/CA/DB/DBL/EB/ER (ICH2/3/4/4-L/5/5R), 6300ESB = Hub Interface to PCI Bridge' class =3D bridge subclass =3D PCI-PCI =20 Thanks, Dean Weimer Network Administrator Orscheln Management Co. =20