Compaq 1850R panics with 5.x

[Guy Silliman]

Thanks for the reply... I will give 4.8R a shot - I am trying to get 
5.1R to work... but I will pass if it is too rough for production machines.

I will also try that bios tweak.

Guy

Olaf Hoyer wrote:

>On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Guy Silliman wrote:
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>>I am trying to get a Compaq 1850R running.  It is a dual PII 400MHz
>>machine that works fine with Win2k server... but
>>I would prefer to use fbsd 5.x but I am stumped by this panic at
>>sysinstall.
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>Hi!
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>Well, the old Compaqs have some quite rough edges, and 5.1R (or do you
>use a -current snapshot?) is also in some things not that nice...
>Sometimes you have to set it to NT4-OS Type.
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>>I have searched all the lists and have tried several fixes mentioned
>>including the "Full table - Mapped" and OS set to Win2k in the BIOS.
>>I have tried disabling the onboard NIC as a possible source of conflicts
>>but no luck.
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>I had in my former company a 1850 running SMP with a 4.8-stable.
>The onboard SCSI is basically a Symbios one, and it was recognized
>without hassle.
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>(Ok, it needs the compaq tool partition to do RAID stuff, but... well,
>broke it during installation)
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>>I would be willing to go with a late 4.x but it does not probe the
>>onboard SCSI  thus I have no drives.
>>I do have a Smart Array 3200 ordered and coming - this may solve the 4.x
>>issue, but I am puzzled by the panic with 5.x.
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>That ist strange indeed, my box (dual PIII-500) went fine.
>But perhaps there is also a different Mainboard in, with some
>undocumented change in  the series.
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>HTH
>Olaf
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