In my server I have four 40GB IBM Deskstar 120GXP drives attached
to an Adaptec 2400A RAID controller in a RAID-5 configuration
with one of the drives configured as a hot spare.
According to Adaptec's raidutil utility the four drives do not
have the S.M.A.R.T. capability for detecting potential
I tried to install FreeBSD 5.0 RC2 on a Compaq Evo D510
Convertible MiniTower and that succeeded without any problems.
However when the machine is booted after the installation I got
a BTX halted message.
In order to solve this I tried to find a solution in the FreeBSD
manual/FAQ and the email