Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 16:50:40 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MegaRAID 428 vs 466 and a way to wedge the controller Message-ID: <200002180050.QAA03318@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Feb 2000 19:30:01 EST." <4.2.2.20000217192443.045cedf0@mail.sentex.net>
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> 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. No, same setup. I have a terminator with a bunch of pretty LEDs on it on the back of the disk box, and the SCSI bus was most surely wedged solid. I've backed off to 4 tags per drive from their "advanced" tag detection (these are 9GB cheetahs) and it's not dying on me now, so I'm fairly certain it's either firmware or firmware:drive interaction. 8( > >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 The latest Dell firmware was working OK; I'm now using the AMI GH6D firmware and as above with tags backed off it was OK for a bit - the box just spontaneously rebooted though, so I'm not so sure it's happy. 8( -- \\ 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
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