Which disk devices boot on Sun Fire X4500?

2010-10-18 Thread Sean Caron
Hi folks, Another quick question regarding FreeBSD on the X4500... Does anyone know off the top of their head the device nodes that correspond to the two bootable disks on the Sun Fire X4500 (slot 0 and slot 1) aka SATA 06C0 S00 and SATA 06C4 S01 in the BIOS? I'm thinking in the analogous sense

Re: No disks found on FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE on Sun X4500

2010-10-18 Thread Sean Caron
Hi Florian, I gave that a try and it worked perfectly; the system comes right up and sees all my Marvell controllers and disks. I remember reading about the Highpoint driver issue of grabbing onto some non-Highpoint Marvell based controllers but for some reason thought it was fixed in the STAB

No disks found on FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE on Sun X4500

2010-10-12 Thread Sean Caron
Hi folks, I've been contracted to try and get FreeBSD up and running on a Sun Fire X4500 "thumper" type system. It's been claimed as far back as 2007 that this system is apparently supported with no major issues: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2007-May/003165.html However in t