Help with FreeBSD on ES-40

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Greetings all,

 

 

I have 4 ES-40 servers in my company and all of them have 4 x 500 Mhz CPUs
and memory from 4 Gb to 6 Gb RAM each.

 

They have 4 Qlogic SCSI adapters and a Mylex DAC960 bundled with the server
for a disk shelf configured for RAID-5.

 

I read that FreeBSD can boot from a raid volume on these controllers but
I´ve been trying to install FreeBSD since 4.8 on these servers without no
success.

 

I can boot the install cd, it finds the mylex, shows the raid volume but
when I start the installation to create a slice, it says that no disks where
found on the system.

 

On this list, there is anyone with a similar server and installed FreeBSD
with success??? I don´t want to put a system disk on a Qlogic controller
just to boot and I really want to use the raid volume from the Mylex.

 

Can anyone help me on this issue??? I can also make any tests for the
community on these machines.

 

 

Thanks in advance,

 

 

Alessandro.