On 20. April 2011, 22:56 Simon L. B. Nielsen [si...@nitro.dk] wrote > On 19 Apr 2011, at 22:16, Holger Kipp wrote: > >> I have to install two production servers from Dell that come with a Perc H >> 200 controller. >> Disks are not recognized with 8.2-RELEASE :-( > > AFAIK Perc H 200 should be supported by mps(4) which wasn't merged to > stable/8 until after 8.2.
Yep, I noted that :-( Also that mps is currently only supporting JBODs. > > Any ideas? If this works with 8-stable, where can I download an ISO Image? > Unfortunately the latest official snapshots were before the driver was merged. > You could try first just to boot on the curent / FreeBSD 9 snapshots and see > if it sees your disks at all. > You can get the snapshot from > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/201102/ . 201102 snapshot is for ia64 and ppc only :-| (and only 9.0-CURRENT) 201101 9.0 snapshots are for amd64, i386 (and 8.2 is only PRERELEASE) I have used the 9.0-CURRENT-201101 now which at least sees the disks as JBOD (Raid 1 drive is not recognized). I have now installed a zfs-only system according to the excellent documentation found here: https://www.dan.me.uk/blog/2010/02/08/booting-from-zfs-raid0156-in-freebsd/ which works just fine (as mirror). Would have loved to use a stable branch (ie 8.2) instead of development (9.0-CURRENT), though. Especially for the new DELL servers with Perc H200 providing a snapshot with the changes would be greatly appreciated! > I don't think there are any other snapshot services still running... so > (assuming > mps(4) actually works with H200) you need to make a build of stable/8 > yourself - > the simplest approach is probably to PXE boot the servers and install by > hand... > but that's of course not a trivial thing if you never tried it before. Well, setting up a PXE boot server just for installing one server... :-/ > I suspect there will be new official snapshots at some point, but I don't > know when... Anyway, thanks a lot for your reply. Maybe someone should update the FreeBSD website, because there it is said that monthly snapshots will be provided for 9.x, 8.x etc. Best regards, Holger -- Holger Kipp Diplom-Mathematiker Senior Consultant Tel. : +49 30 436 58 114 Fax. : +49 30 436 58 214 Mobil: +49 178 36 58 114 Email: holger.k...@alogis.com alogis AG Alt-Moabit 90b D-10559 Berlin web : http://www.alogis.com ---------------------------------------------------------- alogis AG Sitz/Registergericht: Berlin/AG Charlottenburg, HRB 71484 Vorstand: Arne Friedrichs, Joern Samuelson Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Reinhard Mielke _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
