From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 17 12: 9: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2A7A37B6D7 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 12:09:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA00738; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 12:20:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200002172020.MAA00738@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Mike Tancsa Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MegaRAID 428 vs 466 and a way to wedge the controller In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 17 Feb 2000 15:02:21 EST." <3.0.5.32.20000217150221.0161fcb0@marble.sentex.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 12:20:39 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message