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On Tuesday, 1 February 2005 at 21:54:18 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >>>> >>>> 4 X 200MHz processors. >>>> 512Mb RAM >>>> Scsi hardware raid controller. >>> >>> That may be your problem. >> >> Depends on the RAID controller. Both my machines have RAID >> controllers (2DH). See >> http://www.lemis.com/grog/diary-dec2004.html#10: it seems that 5.1 >> panicked. I'm pretty sure I had no trouble with 5.3, though. >> >>> If the system has an EISA raid array card you cannot install >>> FreeBSD on it. There is a bug in the compaq raid driver it won't >>> work on eisa. >> >> I don't think these machines are *that* old. > > Greg, yes they are. Here's a writeup on the 5000: > > http://www.winnetmag.com/Windows/Article/ArticleID/159/159.html Yes, this is about the age I was expecting. The specs are pretty close to my 6500. I didn't realize, that the older RAID cards were EISA, but it's not clear from the article whether they were shipped with the 5000. > If he has an EISA raid card in there he can replace it with one of these: > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=56091&item=5747208198&rd=1 > > which will probably boot FreeBSD just fine. Definitely. This is the 2DH I'm referring to above. > I don't mean to send you away, that auction lists $4 for the raid > card that should work. But I do understand that there are folks who > wouldn't even spend the $4. Look at the shipping costs. That's another $13 before you get started. Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
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