Hi,

> I don't understand why vendor (when they do) support Linux better and 
> sooner than the BSDs. The BSD license and culture I think seems friendlier 
> to the corporate environment. Hmm. :(

I think there's a lot more marketing effort behind Linux, than there is the 
BSDs (especially NetBSD, something I've been personally working on but 
haven't been able to give it 100%, yet).

> I cced as stated below the netbsd-help address. Since this isn't a 
> platform specific issue I didn't email the amd64 port maintainer.

The idea was to make the maintainer aware of your needs, and hope that he 
would get the ball rolling.  If he's at all interested in providing you and 
every other AMD64 platform user what you want/need, then he should be 
involved, they way I see it.  You could pick any port maintainer as far as I 
see it, but since the AMD64 platform is becoming more and more important (in 
my view anyway) and you are an AMD64 port user, why not get him involved.

-Robert

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jimmie Houchin" <jhouchin@texoma.net>
To: <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
Cc: <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: Installing NetBSD experiences and help wanted


> Hello,
>
> Robert Cates wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> it seems I just read another post about a problem with NetBSD not finding 
>> the harddrive, which I find very interesting.  What I'm wondering is how 
>> you have your BIOS set, i.e. the boot-order, and if you can set the 1st 
>> boot device for the 1st drive of your LSI MegaRaid card (I'm assuming you 
>> don't have any IDE harddrives installed on that machine).  Added note, 
>> I've recently found out myself that the NetBSD installer currently only 
>> supports installation on one harddrive.  Any additional harddrives you 
>> have in the machine need to be setup after installation.  It could be 
>> that the NetBSD does not support that particular LSI MegaRaid card yet, 
>> but have a look at the BIOS settings.
>
> As far as I remember the LSI drives are presented as the first drive.
> I have no IDE drives, the onboard Promise SATA is empty, I have 2 arrays 
> on my LSI card.
>
> While composing this email I went to the hardware page you linked.
> I then searched the site. I haven't found any explicit references to 
> support my thoughts that NetBSD had support for the LSI 150-6 controller. 
> I thought it did. My bad, my apologies.
>
> I guess in reading the NetBSD and FreeBSD docs I mixed them up.
> FreeBSD supports the LSI 150-6 controller.
> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/hardware-amd64.html
>
> After a little research apparently FreeBSD didn't support this card until 
> 5.4. So it is pretty recent for them also.
>
> I don't understand why vendor (when they do) support Linux better and 
> sooner than the BSDs. The BSD license and culture I think seems friendlier 
> to the corporate environment. Hmm. :(
>
> I haven't tried FreeBSD on this machine. Just my desktop.
> Hopefully soon these drivers will be ported, and I can possibly give 
> NetBSD a try on this machine. Unless I've deployed it by then.
>
> I cced as stated below the netbsd-help address. Since this isn't a 
> platform specific issue I didn't email the amd64 port maintainer.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jimmie
>
>> You may want to mail the port maintainer directly: 
>> port-amd64-maintainer@netbsd.org or netbsd-help@netbsd.org
>>
>> I did find LSI Logic RAID MegaRAID 320-1, 320-2 listed on the 
>> http://www.netbsd.org/Hardware/pci.html web page, which you might want to 
>> lookover.  You might want to check exactly which chipset is on the card, 
>> maybe it uses a chipset that is not yet supported.(?)  Supported NICs are 
>> also listed on that page.  Go one page up for other supported hardware.
>>
>> In any case, I'm interested to know what you end up doing.
>>
>> -Robert
>
>
> [snip original message]
>
>