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Date:      Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:10:55 +0100
From:      Stefan Cars <stefan@snowfall.se>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   MegaRAID management
Message-ID:  <41C9E2DF.8010405@snowfall.se>
In-Reply-To: <20041222200906.GA24094@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
References:  <41C9CFD7.4020303@snowfall.se> <20041222200255.GB15881@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <41C9D35C.1090408@snowfall.se> <20041222200906.GA24094@odin.ac.hmc.edu>

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Hi!

Thanks, that worked well. Going to another issue then. Does anyone know 
if there is any support for some management of the MegaRAID (perc 
4e/Si)in FreeBSD ?

Kind Regards,
Stefan Cars

Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 09:04:44PM +0100, Stefan Cars wrote:
> 
>>Hi!
>>
>>Thanks for the info, where can I find more information on how to do that 
>>? Could you provide an example of how the devd.conf (or what files 
>>needed to be changed) would look ?
> 
> 
> The devd.conf changes should be a fairly simple modification of the
> existing rules (see "When a USB keyboard arrives") in the file.  Mostly
> changing 1 to 2 and 0 to 1.  You'll want to set the rc.conf variable
> "keyboard" to /dev/kdb1 so it uses the DRAC keyboard by default.
> 
> -- Brooks
> 
> 
>>Kind Regards,
>>Stefan Cars
>>
>>
>>Brooks Davis wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 08:49:43PM +0100, Stefan Cars wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi!
>>>>
>>>>I have some trouble using keyboards (both PS/2 and/or USB) on our 15 new 
>>>>PE 1850's. The installation goes fine (the PS/2 works, USB does not) and 
>>>>single user works OK (with PS/2), but normal boot does not work, it 
>>>>seems it attaches the keyboard to the DRAC cards (it identifies itself 
>>>>as ukbd0). I found a post regarding this 
>>>>(http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-September/038879.html). 
>>>>
>>>>My question is then, is there anyway I can make this work so I can use a 
>>>>regular keyboard (PS/2 or USB) and the DRAC, maybe by fixing so when i 
>>>>attach a USB it disconnectes the DRAC and attaches the USB ?. Disable 
>>>>the keyboard for the DRAC is something I don't want to do since the 
>>>>reason we bought DRACS to them is the possibility to control them 
>>>>remote, I have some pressure of people wanting us to run RedHat on them 
>>>>and I don't want to be forced to do that becuase of this stupid little 
>>>>thing.
>>>
>>>
>>>The correct behavior is currently unobtainable, but you may be able to
>>>get a sufficent approximation working.  At the moment, you'll only be
>>>able to use the PS/2 keyboard in single user mode because syscons is
>>>going to always pick it and you can't switch unless you have a keyboard
>>>or are in multi-user mode.  However, in multiuser you can change
>>>devd.conf to have a different behavior.  It would be fairly simple to
>>>make /dev/kbd1 the primary keyboard and have the appearence of ukbd1
>>>cause /dev/kdb2 to become and primary.
>>>
>>>Hopefully we'll have a real solution soon, but I haven't found the time
>>>to work on it as much as I'd like.
>>>
>>>-- Brooks
>>>



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