4.3. My HP Netserver's SCSI controller is not detected!
This is basically a known problem. The EISA on-board SCSI controller in the
HP Netserver machines occupies EISA slot number 11, so all the ``true'' EISA
slots are in front of it. Alas, the address space for EISA slots >= 10
collides with the address space assigned to PCI, and FreeBSD's
auto-configuration currently cannot handle this situation very well.
So now, the best you can do is to pretend there is no address range clash
:), by bumping the kernel option EISA_SLOTS to a value of 12.
Configure and compile a kernel, as described in the Handbook entry on
configuring the kernel.
Of course, this does present you with a chicken-and-egg problem when
installing on such a machine. In order to work around this problem, a special
hack is available inside UserConfig. Do not use the ``visual''
interface, but the plain command-line interface there. Simply type
eisa 12
quit
at the prompt, and install your system as usual. While it's recommended you
compile and install a custom kernel anyway,
dset now also
understands to save this value.
Hopefully, future versions will have a proper fix for this problem.
NOTE: You can not use a dangerously dedicated disk with
an HP Netserver. See this note for
more info.
