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Date:      Mon, 5 Feb 2007 16:28:02 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, lippe@freebsdbrasil.com.br
Subject:   Re: Dell PowerEdge 840 in FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <200702051628.02501.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <45C745BF.3080600@freebsdbrasil.com.br>
References:  <45C745BF.3080600@freebsdbrasil.com.br>

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On Monday 05 February 2007 09:57, Felippe de Meirelles Motta wrote:
> Hi people,
> 
> Somebody already got problems with PERC 5/i controller, stopping during 
> the boot ?
> 
> Reading the last message, i dont known the possible problem, look:
> 
> mfi0: 587 (223981812s/0x0001/-1) - VD 00/0 progress 2% in 48s: 
> Background Initialization progress on VD 00/0 is 2.03%(48s)
> mfi0:588 (223981820s/0x0000/0) - Battery temperature is normal
> mfi0: 589 (223981820s/0x0000/0) - Current capacity of the battery is 
> above hold
> mfid0: <MFI Logical Disk> on mfi0
> mfid0: 278784MB (578949632 sectors) RAID volume '0' is optimal
> 
> My hardware informations are:
> 
> Dell Poweredge 840
> BIOS A01
> Raid Controller LSI LOGIC Corporation
> PERC 5/i version 5.0.2-0003
> 3 HDs in RAID 5
> 
> I tested with FreeBSD 6.1 and 6.2, but, no success!
> 
> I read about a possible bug in FreeBSD 6.1 with multiple volumes, but i 
> don't find any notice that confirmed this, not even any correction/fix.

It was fixed in 6.2, but you only have 1 volume.  You might have a different 
problem rather than an mfi(4) problem.  You can try disabling SMP as a 
workaround for now to see if it doesn't hang at boot.

> Thanks! :)
> 
> -- 
> 
> Atenciosamente,
> Felippe de Meirelles Motta
> FreeBSD Brasil LTDA.
> http://www.freebsdbrasil.com.br
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-- 
John Baldwin



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