Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 12:43:34 -0500 From: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Jay Aikat <jaikat@email.unc.edu>, Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.4 and PERC 5i controller Message-ID: <200711061143.38729.josh@tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <20071106171724.GA67488@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <47309A66.9070009@email.unc.edu> <20071106171724.GA67488@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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--nextPart1883514.N7dilFasy5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 06 November 2007 11:17:24 am Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 11:46:30AM -0500, Jay Aikat wrote: > > I am trying to install an Endace DAG card for traffic capture on a new > > machine with 8 drives installed using a PERC 5i controller. Due to > > support limitations for the DAG software, I have to install FreeBSD 5.4 > > on this machine. > > > > However, the install CD does not see any drives at all - my guess is > > FreeBSD 5.4 has no drivers for the PERC 5i controller. Does anyone know > > a workaround for this? Is there a PERC 5i driver available for FreeBSD > > 5.4? TIA for your responses. > > I am guessing you are right. 5.4 is pretty old. > Is there any good reason you don't go to a more > modern version of FreeBSD? > > ////jerry > Yeah...and he mentions it in his email. Did you read it? The driver you need (mfi) was never backported to 5.x It was introduced in= =20 =46BSD 6.1-R You might ask the author (Scott Long) how much work it would = be=20 or why it was never backported. It's possible it's trivial and it's possib= le=20 that it would require massive amounts of work. =2D-=20 Thanks, Josh Paetzel PGP: 8A48 EF36 5E9F 4EDA 5A8C 11B4 26F9 01F1 27AF AECB --nextPart1883514.N7dilFasy5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHMKfKJvkB8SevrssRAssxAJ9dutb71W8BDdpkx0SVxDTSgxRD0ACgh9Y0 zREvVJWzK54Gd0EiZniLKG0= =HukI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1883514.N7dilFasy5--
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