From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 18 14:38:58 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 6E98237BAB5 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 14:38:51 -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 OAA01326; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 14:48:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200002182248.OAA01326@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Mike Tancsa Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BIOS and PERC 2/SC (was Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466) ) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 17 Feb 2000 10:37:09 EST." <3.0.5.32.20000217103709.01c2f7b0@marble.sentex.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 14:48:59 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > OK, I took a chance and flashed the card's BIOS to the latest from the AMI > site.... I had been suspecting BIOS, as the readme.txt mentioned problems > with newer motherboards. Lo and Behold, it seems to have done the trick > > amr0: mem 0xe9000000-0xe93fffff irq 11 at device 12.1 on pci0 > amr0: firmware GH6D bios 1.43 32MB memory > amrd0: on amr0 > amrd0: 17522MB (35885056 sectors) RAID 5 (optimal) > > As I mentioned, the card came as a Dell unit. I tried the latest BIOS from > Dell, but that was a year old. The BIOS from megaraid.com 1.43, which is > in there now *seems* to work so far.... At least I can now get a disklable > on the drive and newfs the drive Hmm. I did some testing, and I can lock both the G6HC and G6HD firmware up within a few minutes. The Dell 3.00 firmware remains stable under the same load (20 simultaneous 'bonnie -s 100's). I'm fairly sure it's a firmware lockup - the SCSI bus is hung and usually the PCI bus as well. -- \\ 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