Poweredge 1300
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Hi, is the dell poweredge 1300 not supported?
Im asking beacuse i cannot install into the HD, i used to have openbsd in this server, but for some reason when it is formating the disk drive it aborts with an error about the disk drive, i beleave its in the swap partition, but im not sure.
Im running from memory right now, how can i check if the disk is supported? fdisk doeant work:proxy:~# fdisk -s
fdisk: mounted root fs resource doesn't match expectations (regexec returned 1)im running 1.2-BETA2
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What type of disk - IDE or SCSI? What controller? Is it listed in the hardware computability list? Have you tried 1.2-RC2 or FreeBSD 6.2?
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Its a scsi disk, the adapter is (acording to dmesg)
Adaptec aic7890/91 Ultra2 SCSI adapter
Both adapters are supported acording to the hardware page:
Adaptec AIC7890 host adapter chip
Adaptec AIC7891 host adapter chipI thought that beta2 was the lastest release, i will try rc2. I was running openbsd 3.9 in this server and before that i used to have freebsd 5 so im pretty sure that this controller is supported by freebsd.
Any other advise?
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It may have been supported by FreeBSD 5.x, but that doesn't guarantee that it's supported under 6.2 :)
Given the history of the system you may find that wiping the disk helps, even if it's just the first few sectors (boot with something like Knoppix or Ubuntu live CD then run "dd bs=512 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda count=1024"). It's possible that fdisk is confused by partitions it doesn't understand.
If that doesn't work, posting the exact errors will probably help.
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thank you Cry, the culprit was the openbsd partition. i rebooted with a gentoo live cd and deleted all partitions using fdisk, pfsense is running beautifully now
regards
