6.0-RELEASE Dell PE 850

[Ronald Klop]

On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:51:36 +0100, Vivek Khera <vivek at khera.org> wrote:

>
> On Nov 14, 2005, at 6:31 AM, Johan Kooijman wrote:
>
>> After ordering a stack of Dell PE 850 boxes I found out, by experience,  
>> that
>> 6.0-RELEASE doesn't work with it. It does recognize the S-ATA  
>> controller,
>> but install says it can't find any disks.
>
> there was some discussion about this on the pfSense (firewall software  
> built on 6.0) a week or so ago.  Apparently there is some kernel patch  
> that allows the PE850 to work.  perhaps digging thru the pfSense mailing  
> list archives will help find it.
>
> Not sure the status of having that patch merged back into the FreeBSD  
> main code.  I certainly hope it will be, given how popular these boxes  
> are.

If the patch is submitted as a PR it will help a lot I think.

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  Ronald Klop
  Amsterdam, The Netherlands