Subject: Re: Dell PowerEdge 1550 problems
To: Johnny C. Lam <jlam@williamlam.com>
From: Brian A. Seklecki <lavalamp@burghcom.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/18/2001 23:56:33
How about a recent snapshot?
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/i386/snapshot/
--lava
On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Johnny C. Lam wrote:
> I just recently purchased a Dell PowerEdge 1550 and tried to install
> NetBSD-1.5.1 on it. The INSTALL kernel won't properly attach the two
> ahc devices corresponding to the on-board Adaptec AIC-7899 Ultra3 SCSI
> adapters, and so it doesn't find any hard drives on which to install
> NetBSD. Checking through Google, I see stories of successful
> installations with MS Windows 2000, RH Linux 7.1, and FreeBSD 4.3.
> There was a brief reference to NetBSD-current being able to probe and
> attach the SCSI adapters on the PowerEdge 1550, but I'm loath to
> install NetBSD-current on what will be a production box as I don't
> think the UBC code is ready for prime-time use yet. Is there another
> NetBSD option for me besides installing -current? I guess I would go
> with FreeBSD otherwise.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Johnny Lam <jlam@williamlam.com>
> William Lam & Co., Inc.
>
>
--Brian
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