Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 17:29:59 -0400 (EDT) From: "Viren R.Shah" <viren@rstcorp.com> To: Ian Cartwright <ICartwright@IT.RJF.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Hardware (E-mail)" <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re:Compaq EISA ida driver... Message-ID: <14583.36311.258358.695869@jabberwock.rstcorp.com> In-Reply-To: <6D5097D4B56AD31190D50008C7B1579B6701BC@EXLAN5> References: <6D5097D4B56AD31190D50008C7B1579B6701BC@EXLAN5>
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>>>>> "Ian" == Ian Cartwright <ICartwright@IT.RJF.com> writes: Ian> Hello all, I have been trying to persuade an old Compaq Proliant Ian> 2000 with an EISA SMART RAID controller to boot so I can install Ian> FreeBSD on it. I started with 4.0-RELEASE, and have moved on to Ian> 5.0-CURRENT in the hopes of getting the mfsroot boot disks to Ian> work. In a separate thread (one that got mangled, apparently) I Ian> described my woes. My question now is, would giving 3.4-STABLE Ian> or using an even older version of FreeBSD with the original ida Ian> driver written by Mark Dawson work? Apparently the version in Ian> >=4.0-RELEASE has a problem locking down the EISA resources for Ian> the SMART controllers... It might -- the only change I had to make was to hardcode in the port number used by the EISA RAID controller -- Mark Dawson's driver had problems correctly identifying it in my case (on 4.0-current from March 1999, not 3.4-STABLE). However, it looks like Matthew Dodd is getting closer to getting the driver working in out case, and you might want to consider waiting for that. Ian> Ian Cartwright Viren -- Viren R. Shah "Creeping featurism is a disease, fatal if not treated promptly" -- Don Norman in _The Design of Everyday Things_ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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