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Add entry for Dell Poweredge XE.

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Submitted by:	Vadim Mikhailov <mvp@braz.ru>
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Jordan K. Hubbard 1998-07-03 14:04:32 +00:00
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@ -258,4 +258,12 @@ A: There appears to be a bug in the BIOS on at least some of these boards,
Slice the disk in 'compatible' mode and install BootEasy during the
FreeBSD installation to avoid the bug.
Q: When installing on an Dell Poweredge XE, Dell proprietary RAID controller
DSA (Dell SCSI Array) isn't recognized.
A: Configure DSA to use AHA-1540 emulation using EISA configuration utility.
After that FreeBSD detects DSA as Adaptec AHA-1540 SCSI controller, with
irq 11 and port 340. Under emulation mode system will use DSA RAID disks,
but you cannot use DSA specific features such as watching RAID health.
[ Please add more hardware tips to this Q&A section! ]