i386/103624: Problem installing on Dell Powervault 745N

[John M Collins]

Hi I run pciconf -lv and it gave the following output in relation to the
disk drive:

atapci0epci2:2:0
class=0x010600
card=0x01661d28
chip=0x32008086
rev=0x00
hdr=0x0

When the matchine boots it says:

Intel (R) 31244 Serial AA Dell inc DPA Mode BIOS V1.6.2.000

In relation to the guy's other machine which I couldn't get to work, the
Dell Dimension 9200, Dell said go to Intel to ask more, Intel said it
was a proprietary Dell BIOS and they couldn't help us.

Hope you can help a bit - if only to tell us we're stuffed!

Thanks


On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 18:07 +0000, Bruce M Simpson wrote:

> Synopsis: Problem installing on Dell Powervault 745N
> 
> State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
> State-Changed-By: bms
> State-Changed-When: Mon Sep 25 18:05:31 UTC 2006
> State-Changed-Why: 
> We need more information about this beast.
> 
> >From what little from-the-hip google research I have done, I
> learn that this thing is a Pentium 4 machine with a SATA backplane.
> 
> What we'd need to know is what kind of controller it has.
> For that, it may be best if you can load and run FreeBSD via CDROM
> or possibly FreeSBIE -- we need to get the system up to single
> user from a CDROM or NFS or ram disk, run pciconf -lv and get
> the IDs of the RAID controller which is being problematic.
> 
> Hope this helps!
> 
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=103624

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