From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 16 12:16:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from builder.freebsd.org (builder.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD65E37B54F; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 12:16:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.ca) Received: from vinyl.sentex.ca (vinyl.sentex.ca [209.112.4.14]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86DD9132D6; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 12:15:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from simoeon (simeon.sentex.ca [209.112.4.47]) by vinyl.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA69877; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 15:16:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.ca) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20000216151400.00ff5e40@marble.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@marble.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 15:14:00 -0500 To: current@freebsd.org From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I have been trying to get a PERC 2 (aka MegaRAID 466) working with Current. The box worked fine with the 428, but seems to barf with only the controller swapped. newmail# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ramrd0 bs=1k count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 1024 bytes transferred in 0.000446 secs (2295546 bytes/sec) newmail# !fd fdisk amrd0 ******* Working on device /dev/ramrd0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=2217 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=2217 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 1, size 35616104 (17390 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ sector 2/ head 0; end: cyl 168/ sector 63/ head 254 newmail# disklabel -Brw amrd0 auto newmail# disklabel -e amrd0 disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Invalid argument FreeBSD newmail.sentex.ca 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #0: Wed Feb 16 07:41:02 GMT 2000 mdtancsa@newmail.sentex.ca:/usr/src/sys/compile/newmail i386 newmail# dmesg | grep amr amr0: mem 0xe9000000-0xe93fffff irq 11 at device 12.1 on pci0 amr0: firmware 3.00 bios 1.36 32MB memory amrd0: on amr0 amrd0: 17396MB (35627008 sectors) RAID 5 (optimal) newmail# This is using the BIOS from Dell. Should I be trying the latest and greatest directly from AMI ? There is a warning from them however saying not to use the AMI version with OEM cards. Should I try it anyways ? ---Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Network Administrator, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message