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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!news.bu.edu!usenet From: mi@aldan.star89.galstar.com (Mikhail Teterin) Newsgroups: muc.lists.freebsd.hackers,muc.lists.freebsd.questions,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Dell Drive Array (DDA) Date: 29 Dec 1995 05:25:44 GMT Organization: Boston University Lines: 22 Sender: mi@aldan.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin) Message-ID: <4bvu4p$c5t@news.bu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-71-12.bu.edu X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 I'm trying to install 2.1R on the old Dell system, which happened to have what they called DDA (see subject). That thing is very flexible, can control up to 10 _IDE_ drives (my system has 9) and can either act as a DDA, or, for compatability, as one Adaptec-1540, with up-to 7 SCSI disks. FreeBSD does, indeed recognize it as such. It even sees all the disks properly (I make 4 logical disks out of 9 physical ones). But when it comes to fdisk, aha(1:0:0) times out, aha-driver reports that "card does not take commands -- frozen?", init _dies_ kernel panics... Question one, can anyone think of work-around (I tried different port settings) as it is? Question two, is there a chance, there is a native DDA support for FreeBSD around? Thank you very much! -mi