Re: 3Ware 9500 and disklabel

Vinod Kashyap wrote:

> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Philip Murray [mailto:pmurray_at_nevada.net.nz]
>>Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2004 4:29 PM
>>To: Vinod Kashyap
>>Cc: freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org; Harald Schmalzbauer
>>Subject: Re: 3Ware 9500 and disklabel
>>
>>
>>Vinod Kashyap wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Can you try booting off the installation CD/floppies and running
>>>sysinstall from there?
>>>
>>
>>Ok, I tried to boot from
>>	1) 5.2.1 i386 ISO w/ twa.ko loaded (from 3ware.com)
>>	2) 5.2.1 i386 ISO w/o twa.ko
>>	2) 5.2-CURRENT amd64 ISO from snapshots.se.freebsd.org
>>	3) My own 5.2-CURRENT iso
>>
> 
> 
> Try using whatever method you used to boot at the time of installing
> -CURRENT.
> 

I managed to get it to boot from CD with the -CURRENT snapshot (my 
problem was the bootloader didn't seem to like the machine having serial 
console redirect on in the BIOS). Now I can successfully FDisk and 
Disklabel the volume. When the installer tries to run newfs it hangs. It 
shows me the dialog (the Running newfs -U -O2 /dev/da0s1) in the first 
pty and in the 2nd (or 3rd?) pty it has the first few lines of the newfs 
output but never starts printing out the (inode?) numbers.

Just to make sure my card isn't dud I installed RHEL and used the 64bit 
kernel module from 3ware.com and it works fine.

Thanks for your help.

Philip