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Date:      Thu, 17 Feb 2000 12:20:39 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.ca>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: MegaRAID 428 vs 466 and a way to wedge the controller 
Message-ID:  <200002172020.MAA00738@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Feb 2000 15:02:21 EST." <3.0.5.32.20000217150221.0161fcb0@marble.sentex.ca> 

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> At 11:59 AM 2/17/00 -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
> >> OK,
> >> 	I seem to have my 466 (aka Perc 2/SC) working somewhat as expected once I
> >> flashed to BIOS to the latest rev from AMI.  However, I can now more
> >> reliably wedge the controller where as with the 428 this would only happen
> >> on occasion.
> >
> >When you say "wedge", are you referring to the "controller wedged" 
> >message?  If so, can you increase the 10000 on line 1129 of sys/dev/amr/amr.c
> >to 100000 and try again?  I'm fairly sure that this is just my sloppy 
> >programming giving you a bad time; I need a better timeout for this.
> 
> Actually, in this case, I dont get that message.  Just the same 'effect'.
> iostat shows no activity, although the bonnies are still running, just
> doing nothing.  If there is there some extra information I can provide you
> with, let me know what you want me to do.
> 
> 
> STATE and WCHAN show D and getblk

Ok.  This is the race I was alluding to.  I'm back onto it today after 
testing the Mylex stuff some more.  It's going to take some moderate 
changes to the AMI driver, but I think I have them down now.

-- 
\\ 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




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