amd64 and tx2000 compatibility

mcomb at softcoin.com mcomb at softcoin.com
Mon Dec 27 23:02:23 PST 2004


Apologies for replying to my own thread.  The tx2000 seems to work fine 
if I just use it as an IDE adapter, but as soon as I stripe or span the 
drives attached to it and reboot I get the crashing behavior described 
below.  If anybody has tips for getting this working I'd really 
appreciate it.  I've already made sure the RAID controller bios (and 
motherboard bios) is up to date.

As a fallback I am wondering if built-in RAID on my motherboard (ABIT 
AV8 3rd Eye) is supported?  It is SATA and I don't have any SATA drives 
to try it with, but I could probably dig up some adapters if it would 
get this working.

Also, for what it is worth, this same controller and drives worked 
great on a different 32 bit FreeBSD system for the last year.

-Mike

On Dec 27, 2004, at 9:57 PM, mcomb at softcoin.com wrote:

> Hi, I just setup a shiny new AMD64 box and I'm trying to get FreeBSD 
> 5.3 release installed on it.  As it boots from the install CD it 
> displays LOADER briefly and then immediately reboots.  If I remove my 
> RAID card (Promise tx2000) it seems to boot fine.  I searched the 
> archives, but couldn't find anything relating to this specific card.  
> Should it be supported?  Anybody have a workaround besides going to 
> the 32bit distro?
>
> Thanks,
> -Mike
>
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