Quick question for NutCracker...

To the best of my knowledge, there is no USB hearders on that server.

There is an easy way to check without a risk to your uptime: look at the
back of the server.

You should be able to make due with removing the USB support from the kernel
and recompiling.

Yes, you should have a 3200 or better, and also there is nothing preventing
you from ADDING a usb card to the server if you wish.

Cheers,

LC

"MattD.." wrote in message
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...or anyone else in the know.

I have a Compaq Proliant 6500 Xeon (Dual PIII Xeon 500, 1.2GB memory,
Smart
2/DH RAID (yes, I know it should have a 3200 - If anyone wants to donate
one, or better still a 4200 64 bit, I'll put it right!), new style 9 drive
bay with 6 populated, Netelligent TI Thunderlan NIC etc.) running FreeBSD
5.2.1.

Please ignore the BSD bit. This question is hardware only.

In the dmesg, I get this:
uhci0: Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller port 0x2c20-0x2c3f at
device 15.2 on pci0
uhci0: Could not allocate irq

Now, I know why it doesn't allocate an IRQ. It hasn't been detected by the
F10 setup utility and its PnP details configured and stored in NVRAM.
The
question is, does this controller have a physical presence on the board
(molex header etc.) or is it just an unused feature of the chipset Compaq
have used? It would be handy to have a USB port for a couple of reasons,
specifically UPS interfacing, so if it can be brought out to the rear
panel, I'd like to do it.

Also, will the latest setup utility recognize the controller? I used the
4.7
Smart Start to set up both the initial config and the system partition,
which is getting on a bit now. OK, I could try it, but I'd like to know if
it's available as a connection first before risking my month+ uptime
figure
(I've only had the thing 6 weeks, so reliability is looking good) on a
whim. If it isn't available, I'll take the uhci device out of the kernel.
I
don't like dmesg errors, especially when trying to convince clients that
BSD is the way to go ;o)

Any advice gratefully received. Everything else works perfectly and having
used nothing but Compaq/BSD combinations as servers for a good while, I'm
pretty au-fait with the nuances.
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MattD..
mattd145 at onetel dot com