From a23bbb9036fd9f71799cd8cbe40ca06f5cc4c45e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 14:04:32 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add entry for Dell Poweredge XE. Submitted by: Vadim Mikhailov --- release/sysinstall/help/trouble.hlp | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/release/sysinstall/help/trouble.hlp b/release/sysinstall/help/trouble.hlp index b5501653c45..22f228a6abb 100644 --- a/release/sysinstall/help/trouble.hlp +++ b/release/sysinstall/help/trouble.hlp @@ -258,4 +258,12 @@ A: There appears to be a bug in the BIOS on at least some of these boards, Slice the disk in 'compatible' mode and install BootEasy during the FreeBSD installation to avoid the bug. +Q: When installing on an Dell Poweredge XE, Dell proprietary RAID controller + DSA (Dell SCSI Array) isn't recognized. + +A: Configure DSA to use AHA-1540 emulation using EISA configuration utility. + After that FreeBSD detects DSA as Adaptec AHA-1540 SCSI controller, with + irq 11 and port 340. Under emulation mode system will use DSA RAID disks, + but you cannot use DSA specific features such as watching RAID health. + [ Please add more hardware tips to this Q&A section! ]