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List:       freebsd-hardware
Subject:    Re: FreeBSD 4.X and Intel E7520 chipset problems
From:       John Baldwin <jhb () freebsd ! org>
Date:       2004-10-12 15:19:27
Message-ID: 200410121119.27359.jhb () FreeBSD ! org
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On Tuesday 12 October 2004 10:32 am, Gordan Remus (Vox Mundi) wrote:
> Recently we have purchased a Supermicro X6DHR-IG2 motherboard
> based on Intel E7520 chipset with 2x3.0GHz Xeons and are unable
> to install FreeBSD 4.X on it.
> It seems that FreeBSD 4.X is not recognizing the chipset
> and therefore it's unable to recognize Mylex AcceleRAID 160 controller.
>
> Everything is working fine on FreeBSD 5.X, but unfortunately
> the application we need to run on top of that is made specifically
> for FreeBSD 4.X.
>
> Is there any chance that Intel E7520 chipset will be supported
> on some future 4.X releases or is there some kind of patch/workaround ?

What specifically does 4.x not recognize?  Does it only see one host-PCI 
bridge when there are more than one and the missing devices are on the other 
host bridges?  If so, can you install 5.x on it and get an acpidump output 
that I can look at?

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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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