Problem installing 5.1-relase on machine with SCSI and SX6000

From: Kristian Larsson (kristian_at_zarknet.tk)
Date: 08/18/03

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    To: <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 19:12:56 +0200

    Hi!

    I've got an old Intergraph which has been running as my fileserver för two
    years, so far with Red Hat Linux 7.3
    Due to several problems with it (sleeping zombie processes which were
    impossible to kill amongst others) I've decided to switch to FreeBSD. Since
    it's a SMP machine (dual 400Mhz) I thought I'd be running a 5.x release
    since the SMP support has improved with it.
    The system features 9 disks altogether. Three of them connected to a LSI
    53c8xx SCSI controller (dont actually remember the two last digits, but I
    beleive it to be of little relevance, I will find out if necessary) and the
    other six are connected to a Promise SX6000 card. The Promise SX6000 is
    configured for providing a single large volume (RAID 5). One of the SCSI
    disks are meant for the "system" and the IDE disks for "storage".
    My problem is this; when I try to install all I get in fdisk is the pst0
    disk (aka Promise card with it's attached disks) the SCSI disks don't even
    show up.
    And since they were intended for the system I am stranded. I have never had
    this kind of a problem so I really have no idea where to start. Help is very
    much appreciated, and I will try and provide any information left out here.

    I've tried searching the mailing archives as well as google, but I'm even
    having trouble formulating my question and I imagine the number of people
    with my set up is rather small.
    Please cc directly to my mail < kristian at zarknet dot tk > since I am not
    subscribed to this list.

    Regards,
    Kristian

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