HP Proliant ML110 installation issue.

[Mats Hellman]

I'm trying to do an FreeBSD install on my new HP Proliant ML110 server.
This thing has an Promise SATA RAID card, model PDC20621, I think it's
causing some problems. Since the server has only 2 x 160Gb SATA Maxtor
hotswap drives and a tape for backup I have the disks in RAID 1. Which ads
up to a nice 320Gb. The server is going to be used as HTTP/FTP server and
will be mirroring some files.
When I try to boot up the FreeBSD installation this is what happens.

The first problem:

ad8 is the first 160Gb SATA

ad8: Failure - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFERMODE timed out
ad8: Failure - SETFEATURES ENABLE RCACHE timed out
ad8: Failure - SETFEATURES ENABLE WCACHE timed out

ad10 the second sata.

The same errors as ad8.

Then it hangs in a loop saying,

ad8: req=0xc1b0f960 SETFEATURES SET TRANSFERMODE semaphore timeout. Danger
Will Robinsson !!


Anyone have a clue where to start fixing this or is it just incompatible
hardware?


Sincerely,

Mats Hellman
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Re: How do I re-format 'dangerously dedicated' drive?

[Mats Hellman]

Just to make sure.
You are using medias that your CD-ROM can read. I once almost ripped my hair
of when I couldn't get an old machine to boot from cd. At the time I was
using CD-RW medias and the drive was not able to read them. So if you are
using CD-RW try a CD-R.


Mats Hellman

On 11/21/05, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
 
  Hi all,
 
  I don't have an MS-DOS floppy, and I think my CDROM isn't booting
 because the
  HD is 'dangerously dedicated,' even though it is a bootable CD and the
 BIOS is
  set to boot it first.

 Since it is set to boot the HD first and it has a boot sector, the BIOS
 doesn't want to get by that.

 So, you want to go in to the BIOS and reconfigure it to put the CD boot
 in front of the HD. Then you can either completely reinstall the most
 recent FreeBSD or use the fisit to rebuild something on that disk.

 The key thing is to have both floppy and CD in the boot order before
 the Hard Disk. Change that only if you really need to.

 jerry

 
  I want to totally clear my drive so I can reinstall from scratch from
 CDROM.
  How can I do this?
 
  jm
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