From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 29 08:40:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA15666 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 08:40:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns0.iticom.net (root@[207.49.135.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA15656 for ; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 08:40:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from trouble@webfyre.com) Received: from webfyre.com by ns0.iticom.net ; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 15:39:30 +000 Message-ID: <35BF5048.A234CA39@webfyre.com> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 11:39:36 -0500 From: "Security Mgr." Reply-To: trouble@webfyre.com Organization: Web Fyre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Josh , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: cam worked, how to get system onto SCSI disks? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Josh wrote: > Hi I wrote in regarding cam last week. I got it to install and > compiled a kernel OK. Now I need to get the system onto the SCSI disks. > Its an onboard aic7895 thats causing the grief! The kernel can see the > 2 scsi disks OK. > BUT I am having trouble getting the things created properly. If I use > /stand/sysinstall it only sees sd0 and sd1. Not ideal and in frustration > I tried it and it rebooted the machine :-) > Using the instructions on this page:- > > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook104.html#156 > > I managed to get a partition rda0a to mounted on /mnt and it appears > to work. However I am not 100% happy and would appreciate any advice > on the matter. If this works as I hope I intend to pax the idea partitions > up and write them onto the SCSI (9Gig) drive, remove the idea and pray! > > If anyone has a comment please do as I am feeling my way! > > Josh > Ya kow Im currently having the same problems with an adaptec 2980 controller, but i couldnt even compile a kernel.. Think we should really iron this issue out cause there are alot of new adaptec controllers available . We need a FAQ or something that will give good step by step instuctions so i can build a kernel with the good cam for my controller then install on a 9.1 gig seagate barracuda drive. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message