Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:46:24 +0200 From: ovidiu ene <ovidiue@unixware.ro> To: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: PowerEdge 1950 SAS and SATA support Message-ID: <4561CDD0.1000400@unixware.ro> In-Reply-To: <8289B626D72650D4AD7B35B3@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> References: <455ED90E.10400@unixware.ro> <8289B626D72650D4AD7B35B3@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local>
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Hello again Thank you for your detalied answer. Do you know if FreeBSD 6.1 support SATA controller or SAS controller on PowerEdge 1950 best regards, ovidiu ene Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On November 18, 2006 11:57:34 AM +0200 ovidiu ene > <ovidiue@unixware.ro> wrote: > >> Hello guys, >> >> I want to know if Dell PowerEdge 1950 works fine on FreeBSD 6.1 i386. >> (I am interested if network cards are detected and work properly, also >> if SATA/SAS drive is detected properly. >> > There are two problems that you must overcome and they require that > you rebuild world and kernel. The network card driver has a problem, > and the usb driver has a problem. The former causes the network card > to become unusable and only a reboot will fix it. The latter prevents > you from using the DRAC card (if you ordered one with the 1950.) > > Both problems can be overcome with newer source code files, but you > then have to rebuild world and kernel. And you must save those source > code files, because you'll need them every time you have to update > world or kernel due to security patches. > > The two files in question are if_bce.c and ehci.c. > > if_bce.c > > <http://www.ifdnrg.com/freebsd_broadcom_dell_1950.htm>; > > ehci.c v 1.42: > > <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/usb/ehci.c?rev=1.42&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup>; > > > Put this version in place in /usr/src/sys/dev/usb, comment out line 766 > and rebuild your kernel and the DRAC5 keyboard will start to work. > > The commit note says MFC after 2 weeks, but this seems to have been > missed. > I'm going to ping the maintainers and see if I can get it MFCed before > 6.2 > comes out. > > Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) > Senior Information Security Analyst > The University of Texas at Dallas > http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ >
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