Hello, i read from the current documentation that it is not advised to purchase hardware containing the following (taken from http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html)
Adaptec FSA-based RAID controllers (aac), including: (*) Note: In the past years Adaptec has lied to us repeatedly about forthcoming documentation which would have allowed us to stabilize, improve and manage RAID support for these (rather buggy) raid controllers. As a result, we do not recommend the Adaptec cards for use. * Adaptec AAC-2622, AAC-364, AAC-3642, 2130S, 2200S, 2230SLP, 2410SA, 2610SA, 2810SA, 21610SA * Dell CERC-SATA, PERC 320/DC * Dell PERC 2/QC, PERC 2/Si, PERC 3/Si, PERC 3/D * HP NetRaid-4M * IBM ServeRAID-8i/8k/8s Now I do have a Dell PE 850 (2005 edition) SATA CERC 1.5/6Ch with a RAID on it. Works perfectly under Linux as one RAID, but OpenBSD (4.6 says no drive). Does it mean I'm screwed? Message below. booting cd0a:/4.6/i386/bsd.rd: 5651156+913072 [52+211008+196339]=0x6a6260 entry point at 0x200120 Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 1995-2009 OpenBSD. All rights reserved. http://www.OpenBSD.org OpenBSD 4.6 (RAMDISK_CD) #53: Thu Jul 9 21:41:35 MDT 2009 dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/RAMDISK_CD cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 3.01 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,EST,CNXT-ID,CX16,xTPR real mem = 4025843712 (3839MB) avail mem = 3914698752 (3733MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 10/12/05, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xffe90, SMBIOS rev. 2.3 @ 0xfa460 (48 entries) bios0: vendor Dell Computer Corporation version "A02" date 10/12/2005 bios0: Dell Computer Corporation PowerEdge 850 acpi0 at bios0: rev 0 acpi0: tables DSDT FACP APIC SPCR HPET MCFG acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee00000: PC-AT compat cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor) cpu0: apic clock running at 200MHz ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 1 pa 0xfec00000, version 20, 24 pins ioapic0: misconfigured as apic 0, remapped to apid 1 ioapic1 at mainbus0: apid 2 pa 0xfec10000, version 20, 24 pins ioapic1: misconfigured as apic 0, remapped to apid 2 acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0) acpiprt1 at acpi0: bus 1 (PES1) acpiprt2 at acpi0: bus 2 (PEP0) acpiprt3 at acpi0: bus 3 (PXHA) acpiprt4 at acpi0: bus 4 (PEP1) acpiprt5 at acpi0: bus 5 (PEP2) acpiprt6 at acpi0: bus 6 (PCIS) bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x8000 0xc8000/0x1000 0xc9000/0x1600 0xca800/0x4000 0xec000/0x4000! pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel E7230 Host" rev 0x00 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Intel E7230 PCIE" rev 0x00: apic 1 int 16 (irq 0) pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 bge0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Broadcom BCM5721" rev 0x11, BCM5750 B1 (0x4101): apic 1 int 16 (irq 5), address 00:10:18:14:6a:2d brgphy0 at bge0 phy 1: BCM5750 10/100/1000baseT PHY, rev. 0 ppb1 at pci0 dev 28 function 0 "Intel 82801GB PCIE" rev 0x01 pci2 at ppb1 bus 2 ppb2 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Intel PCIE-PCIE" rev 0x09 pci3 at ppb2 bus 3 "Adaptec ASR-2200S" rev 0x01 at pci3 dev 2 function 0 not configured ppb3 at pci0 dev 28 function 4 "Intel 82801G PCIE" rev 0x01 pci4 at ppb3 bus 4 bge1 at pci4 dev 0 function 0 "Broadcom BCM5721" rev 0x11, BCM5750 B1 (0x4101): apic 1 int 16 (irq 5), address 00:13:72:3b:87:09 brgphy1 at bge1 phy 1: BCM5750 10/100/1000baseT PHY, rev. 0 ppb4 at pci0 dev 28 function 5 "Intel 82801G PCIE" rev 0x01 pci5 at ppb4 bus 5 bge2 at pci5 dev 0 function 0 "Broadcom BCM5721" rev 0x11, BCM5750 B1 (0x4101): apic 1 int 17 (irq 11), address 00:13:72:3b:87:0a brgphy2 at bge2 phy 1: BCM5750 10/100/1000baseT PHY, rev. 0 uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x01: apic 1 int 20 (irq 11) uhci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 1 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x01: apic 1 int 21 (irq 10) uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 2 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x01: apic 1 int 22 (irq 6) ehci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 7 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x01: apic 1 int 20 (irq 11) usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub0 at usb0 "Intel EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 ppb5 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 "Intel 82801BA Hub-to-PCI" rev 0xe1 pci6 at ppb5 bus 6 vga1 at pci6 dev 5 function 0 "XGI Technology Volari Z7" rev 0x00 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) ichpcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel 82801GB LPC" rev 0x01: PM disabled pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 1 "Intel 82801GB IDE" rev 0x01: DMA, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0 scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <TEAC, CD-ROM CD-224E-N, 3.AB> ATAPI 5/cdrom removable cd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 pciide0: channel 1 ignored (disabled) "Intel 82801GB SMBus" rev 0x01 at pci0 dev 31 function 3 not configured usb1 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb2 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub2 at usb2 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb3 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0 uhub3 at usb3 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 isa0 at ichpcib0 isadma0 at isa0 com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo com0: console pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16 rd0: fixed, 3800 blocks uhidev0 at uhub3 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0 "Logitech HID compliant keyboard" rev 1.10/1.80 addr 2 uhidev0: iclass 3/1 ukbd0 at uhidev0 wskbd1 at ukbd0 mux 1 wskbd1: connecting to wsdisplay0 uhidev1 at uhub3 port 2 configuration 1 interface 1 "Logitech HID compliant keyboard" rev 1.10/1.80 addr 2 uhidev1: iclass 3/0, 2 report ids uhid at uhidev1 reportid 1 not configured uhid at uhidev1 reportid 2 not configured softraid0 at root root on rd0a swap on rd0b dump on rd0b erase ^?, werase ^W, kill ^U, intr ^C, status ^T Welcome to the OpenBSD/i386 4.6 installation program. Cheers, Steph