From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 4 2: 2:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from solaris.matti.ee (solaris.matti.ee [194.126.98.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE8E715116 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 02:02:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vallo@myhakas.matti.ee) Received: from myhakas.matti.ee (myhakas.matti.ee [194.126.114.87]) by solaris.matti.ee (8.8.8/8.8.8.s) with ESMTP id MAA04052; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 12:02:15 +0200 (EET) Received: (from vallo@localhost) by myhakas.matti.ee (8.9.3/8.9.1) id MAA02762; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 12:02:16 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from vallo) Message-ID: <19990304120216.B2324@matti.ee> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 12:02:16 +0200 From: Vallo Kallaste To: Cloud , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD with IBM ServeRaid II on a Netfinity 5500 Reply-To: vallo@matti.ee References: <36DC35CE.2B9AC4D8@home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <36DC35CE.2B9AC4D8@home.com>; from Cloud on Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 02:02:38PM -0500 Organization: =?iso-8859-15?Q?AS_Matti_B=FCrootehnika?= Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 02:02:38PM -0500, Cloud wrote: > I am in the process of ordering a IBM Netfinity server 5500, and i will > be running freebsd. > The server has on-board IBM Serverraid II raid controller, which uses > the AIC-7880P adaptec chipset. I see that freebsd supports the 7895 > chipset, and the two are very similar (the 7895 supports ultra2wide > scsi, the 7880 only wide scsi). > > I am wondering if the 7880P will be detected during the install, or > generally if this chipset will work under FreeBSD. IBM tells me it works IBM ServeRaid controllers isn't supported I'm afraid :( Yes there are some Adaptec chips integrated onto motherboard but there's also one PowerPC processor which plays important role, so I don't believe FreeBSD is able to use the onboard Adaptec chip. Actually, I don't know, but I have two NetFinity 5500 laying around here and maybe I can boot one of them in the evening with FreeBSD. Both of them run LoseNT, ick. -- Vallo Kallaste vallo@matti.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message