Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 13:56:05 -0700 From: "alex huppenthal" <alex@aspenworks.com> To: <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: PERC controller Saga of making Dell Poweredge work FreeBSD 4.1 Message-ID: <008f01c08d5a$908014e0$e2aa85ce@d7k> References: <007f01c08d54$0c532a00$e2aa85ce@d7k>
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I've found the following: the aac driver is not in FreeBSD 3.5, however, my 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #2: Mon Jan 8 17:11:44 MST 2001, does have the driver. I'm haven't found a floppy set from 4.2-Stable, so I'm giving a 5.x snapshot a try. -Alex ----- Original Message ----- From: "alex huppenthal" <alex@aspenworks.com> To: <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 1:09 PM Subject: adding a driver. PERC controller Saga of making Dell Poweredge work FreeBSD 4.1 > It continues. Any help is much appreciated. I've been trying to load FreeBSD > 4.1 on a Dell system. > > I've located a driver - aac-20000912.tar.gz kindly donated by Dell tech > support (said to work, but not supported) for FreeBSD 4.x. > > I'm trying to research how I can build and install a boot kernel with this > driver, so I have access to the Dell on-board raid controller and drives. > > The tech at Dell said the poweredge 2450 is a Adaptec 3400S raid chip, Dell > refers to this as a PERC 3/Si . > > The untarred source files from Dell look like: > > 2 ./aac-20000912/sys/modules/aac > 3 ./aac-20000912/sys/modules > 153 ./aac-20000912/sys/dev/aac > 154 ./aac-20000912/sys/dev > 158 ./aac-20000912/sys > 1 ./aac-20000912/share/man/man4 > 2 ./aac-20000912/share/man > 3 ./aac-20000912/share > 162 ./aac-20000912 > > However, these look like an older version of sys/dev /acc files of a 4.2 > Kernel. I don't have a 4.1 Kernel. Should I be using 4.2? > > I > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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