From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 16 17: 3:33 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 07D6737B505 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 17:03:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73874132E0 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 17:02:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA02277; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 17:15:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200002170115.RAA02277@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Mike Tancsa Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 16 Feb 2000 15:14:00 EST." <3.0.5.32.20000216151400.00ff5e40@marble.sentex.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 17:15:00 -0800 From: Mike Smith 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. I don't think the two controllers share on-disk configuration formats; you'll probably need to re-initialise the array (I could be wrong about that). > 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 You probably don't want to do that with a valid slice table installed; the slice code does silly things. Try nuking it first: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/amrd0 count=16 > 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 ? This isn't a BIOS issue, as far as I can tell. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message