Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 14:34:15 +0900 From: Nathan Butcher <xqufa@yokohama.riken.jp> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 5.4 RAID problems on Fujitsu RX300 hardware Message-ID: <428D76D7.5020206@yokohama.riken.jp>
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I'm having difficulties installing the recently released FreeBSD 5.4 onto a particular Fujitsu RX300 server. According to the start up message, these machines use an Adaptec I2O Raid Controller. As the kernel loads up from the CD before the installation screens, the kernel produces a Hard Disk related error a few times:- ata1-master : FAILURE ATAPI_IDENTIFY timed out This is a special case as I have had no problems booting up FreeBSD 5.4 on similar hardware with identical RAID and BIOS settings. The only thing different between the working and non-working servers appears to be the hard drives. Both machines have 3 hard drives, and RAID-1 has been set up to use two of those drives (the third drive is a spare). The RAID BIOS settings are identical on both machines with the exception being the size of the hard drives between them. Non working server:- FUJITSU MAP3147NC Capacity 137GB Working server:- FUJITSU MAP3735NC Capacity 68GB Also something interesting was noticed in the kernel messages (sorry, no way to get an actual logfile of this) :- Non working server:- md0: Preloaded Image </boot/mfsroot> 4423680bytes at 0xc09dde24 ata1-master : FAILURE ATAPI_IDENTIFY timed out Working server:- md0: Preloaded Image </boot/mfsroot> 4423680bytes at 0xc09dde24 acd0: CDROM <SR244W/T02B> at ata1-master PIO 4 So what's really going on? Is the CD-ROM drive on the non-working server hooked up the wrong way, or can't the RAID driver handle disk sizes that are too big (bigger than 120GB maybe)? Comments? Help? Nathan
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