RE: 3Ware 9500 and disklabel

From: Vinod Kashyap (vkashyap_at_amcc.com)
Date: 07/27/04

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    To: Philip Murray <pmurray@nevada.net.nz>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 16:27:52 -0700

    > >>
    > >>Vinod Kashyap wrote:
    > >>
    > >>
    > >>>Can you try booting off the installation CD/floppies and running
    > >>>sysinstall from there?
    > >>>
    > >>
    > >>Ok, I tried to boot from
    > >> 1) 5.2.1 i386 ISO w/ twa.ko loaded (from 3ware.com)
    > >> 2) 5.2.1 i386 ISO w/o twa.ko
    > >> 2) 5.2-CURRENT amd64 ISO from snapshots.se.freebsd.org
    > >> 3) My own 5.2-CURRENT iso
    > >>
    > >
    > >
    > > Try using whatever method you used to boot at the time of installing
    > > -CURRENT.
    > >
    >
    > I managed to get it to boot from CD with the -CURRENT snapshot (my
    > problem was the bootloader didn't seem to like the machine
    > having serial
    > console redirect on in the BIOS). Now I can successfully FDisk and
    > Disklabel the volume. When the installer tries to run newfs
    > it hangs. It
    > shows me the dialog (the Running newfs -U -O2 /dev/da0s1) in
    > the first
    > pty and in the 2nd (or 3rd?) pty it has the first few lines
    > of the newfs
    > output but never starts printing out the (inode?) numbers.
    >

    As I have written earlier to some mailing lists, twa has not been
    tested on amd64 as yet, and is not supported by 3ware. Since there
    seem to be quite a few people interested in amd64 support, I am
    trying to see what I can do about it.

    > Just to make sure my card isn't dud I installed RHEL and used
    > the 64bit
    > kernel module from 3ware.com and it works fine.
    >
    > Thanks for your help.
    >
    > Philip
    >
    >
    >
    >

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