Attempting to use full screen setup utility. Upon boot of system to CD-ROM, system displays all drives on system as created with SCSI Management feature. Window selection for configuration is displayed and visual mode is selected. Active devices in visual mode are displayed for SCSI and narrow controllers but there are no settings to change, only flags. No Base I/O or IRQ when selected can be changed. When select to continue with installation, sys install window appears correctly but when any selection to start the rest of the installation is selected, a window appears indicating that no disks have been found. Fix: Unknown How-To-Repeat: Problem is consistent on all versions that I have attempted. Only have 4.0 and 5.0 Versions on hand.
State Changed From-To: open->feedback The manual page for the ahc driver lists the 7890 as a supported controller. So I'd say that either your kernel doesn't have support for the ahc device compiled into it, or your controller has been "re-badged" in such a way as to make it unrecognizable. Could you try a pciconf -l on your box and send back the output? Also, the output of the dmesg command might be useful.
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-bugs->gibbs Over to the maintainer.
Got some more information on this for you if you are willing to give it a go- Installed the OS on another system using the same 4.4 version CD and the ahc device was used to access the SCSI controller on that one successfully so I am guessing that it must be something with my other Dell Server (Some Dell Overhead on the on-board chip that is covering up the actual controller). We are yanking out the documentation to see if the Dell PERC manager can be shut off or bypassed or emulate something else that can be recognized. Anyhow, any help you can give me is just another step in the completion direction, the sooner I get there the better!! Thanks again- CPT DAVID MILLIKEN DAMO, 25th Infantry Division (Light) Webmaster:www.25idl.army.mil (808)655-8857 MillikenDB@schofield.army.mil -Voice of Command- -----Original Message----- From: sheldonh@FreeBSD.org [mailto:sheldonh@FreeBSD.org] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 2:39 AM To: MillikenDB@schofield.army.mil; sheldonh@FreeBSD.org; freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org; gibbs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386/21071: SCSI Controller Not Detected When Attempting Install FreeBSD OS Synopsis: SCSI Controller Not Detected When Attempting Install FreeBSD OS State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback State-Changed-By: sheldonh State-Changed-When: Wed Sep 6 04:28:17 PDT 2000 State-Changed-Why: The manual page for the ahc driver lists the 7890 as a supported controller. So I'd say that either your kernel doesn't have support for the ahc device compiled into it, or your controller has been "re-badged" in such a way as to make it unrecognizable. Could you try a pciconf -l on your box and send back the output? Also, the output of the dmesg command might be useful. Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->gibbs Responsible-Changed-By: sheldonh Responsible-Changed-When: Wed Sep 6 04:28:17 PDT 2000 Responsible-Changed-Why: Over to the maintainer. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=21071
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000 23:41:04 GMT, "Milliken David B CPT 25 ID L G6(n)" wrote: > Still not having any luck. Tried every possible option available. OS Still > identifies the Hard Disks at the startup but after the first board, drives > are not available. Must be something to do with the Dell SCSI system but > not sure what. Cannot get the system to emulate anything else and can't run > any commands. Sounds more and more like rebadging, although I'm guessing here. :-) One way that you could try to get more information about the SCSI controller would be to get an IDE disk into the machine, install FreeBSD on that (minimal install), and then send the output of the dmesg(8) command after a verbose boot (boot -v at the loader prompt) and the output of the ``pciconf -l'' command. Ciao, Sheldon.
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000 22:24:56 GMT, "Milliken David B CPT 25 ID L G6(n)" wrote: > Sounds like a good idea but the systems that I have are a Rack Mounted > version of the Dell PowerEdge. The case is a little bit of a custom > design to work only with the SCSI controller. Is there a way to boot > off a floppy disk or such ?? You could boot off floppies, but I don't think that pciconf is on the floppies. If you could boot off CDROM, however, I'm pretty sure that the pciconf utility would be available. Basically, though, it sounds like you're not in a position to provide more information about the hardware unless you can open up the box and stuff a new controller in it, if that's possible at all. If the hardware vendor would like to get involved in helping you out, we might make some progress. Basically, it sounds like the driver needs to know more about this chip's real identity. Ciao, Sheldon.
Responsible Changed From-To: gibbs->msmith The Perc2 controller is supported by the "aac" driver. It should be available in 4.1.1R, 4.2R, or a 4-stable snapshot. It the driver s still does not attach, you should contact mike smith. He owns the aac driver.
State Changed From-To: feedback->closed The PERC family contains controllers from both AMI and Adaptec. The AMI controllers (PERC, PERC 2/SC, PERC 2/DC) are supported in FreeBSD 4.1 and later. There is some support in 4.0 for these controllers, but it has known problems and should be avoided. The Adaptec controllers (PERC 2/QC, PERC 2/Si, PERC 2/Di, PERC 3/Si) are supported in FreeBSD 4.3 and later. The Dell PowerEdge 4350 offers several RAID options; the PR is not specific about which controller is installed. The install should be retried using the appropriate FreeBSD version as indicated above.