From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 17 17: 3:16 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 D714337B8CC; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 17:03:04 -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 UAA82497; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 20:03:02 -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 UAA19810; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 20:03:01 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000217195946.04682de8@mail.sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@mail.sentex.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 20:02:05 -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: <200002180050.QAA03318@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 04:50 PM 2/17/2000 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > 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( Hmmm... I forgot to check what the tag settings was on the controller. But I am using 9GIG quantum Atlas IIIs. But on mine, I dont get a complete lock up. Just cant talk to the RAID drives. 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( Yikes. It hasnt done that to me. ---Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message