From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 17 16:31:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from vinyl.sentex.ca (vinyl.sentex.ca [209.112.4.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E989137B8B5; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 16:31:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite-atm.sentex.ca [209.112.4.1]) by vinyl.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA78475; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 19:30:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id TAA02875; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 19:30:58 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000217192443.045cedf0@mail.sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@mail.sentex.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 19:30:01 -0500 To: Mike Smith From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: MegaRAID 428 vs 466 and a way to wedge the controller Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200002180019.QAA02987@mass.cdrom.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 04:19 PM 2/17/2000 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >Hmm. I flashed my PERC 2 up to the latest AMI firmware, and with about a >dozen bonnie processes running it took about 30 seconds for the controller >to lock up completely (I had to power-cycle it to get it to come back). Is this a purely amr box ? I had been testing it out only on 1 partition mounted as /mnt. Although all access to the AMI is hosed, access to my IDE is without issue. >I wouldn't say you have a firmware issue there yet, but it's not looking >very good. What rev of the firmware were you using before hand ? the 3.00 from Dell ? Like I said, without this rev, I could not do anything with the card. From the release notes, it would seem the card has some issues with modern BIOSes ---Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message