RE: FreeBSD 8.3-R sysinstall does not "see" disks that are recognized during boot

2012-04-19 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:17:31 -0400 (EDT), Andy Dills wrote: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2012, Harris, James R wrote: > > > > Andy and I worked this out offline - workaround was to go to > > Options|Re-scan which caused the devices to show up in the sysinstall > > menu. I'm adding details here for fut

RE: FreeBSD 8.3-R sysinstall does not "see" disks that are recognized during boot

2012-04-18 Thread Andy Dills
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012, Harris, James R wrote: > > Andy and I worked this out offline - workaround was to go to > Options|Re-scan which caused the devices to show up in the sysinstall > menu. I'm adding details here for future reference. > > 1) C60x chipsets have the 6 traditional SATA ports, pl

RE: FreeBSD 8.3-R sysinstall does not "see" disks that are recognized during boot

2012-04-18 Thread Harris, James R
>-- Forwarded message -- >Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:02:31 -0400 (EDT) >From: Andy Dills >To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org >Subject: FreeBSD 8.3-R sysinstall does not "see" disks that are recognized >during boot > > >I've got a new supermicro server I'm trying to get FreeBSD on.

Re: FreeBSD 8.3-R sysinstall does not "see" disks that are recognized during boot

2012-04-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 18/04/2012, at 7:32, Andy Dills wrote: > I've got a new supermicro server I'm trying to get FreeBSD on. It uses the > Intel c602 chipset, and it's my understanding that support for that > chipset (c60X) was recently added via the isci driver. Ok, great, that > explains why 8.2-R and 9.0-R di

Re: FreeBSD 8.3-R sysinstall does not "see" disks that are recognized during boot

2012-04-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 17/04/2012 23:02, Andy Dills wrote: > However, once the system finishes booting and loads into sysinstall, and I > go to partition the drives, I get "No disks found! Please verify that your > disk controller is being properly loaded at boot time". If you boot into 'Live CD' rather than the in