Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:48:36 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Cruel and unusual problems with Proliant ML350 Message-ID: <ej2l2d$h42$1@sea.gmane.org>
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The machine in question has a 2-core Xeon, 2GB RAM and a new ciss-compatible controller, for which I appologise for not remembering the exact model but it's "200-something" with three attached 7.2k RPM SATA drives (so it's probably SAS-compatible) in RAID5, and 128 MB cache with BBU. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.2-beta3, and though all hardware is correctly detected, there are some curious problems: - The least problem: drive access is incredibly slow, but since this is a brand new machine and BIOS complains that the BBU is not filled to capacity and the controller is doing some calibration, it doesn't seem serious for now. On one burst I managed to get ~~110 MB/s reads from dd on raw device which is enough. - The less serious problem: It looks like a whole bunch of built-in devices is routed to irq 29: bce, ciss, ohci and ehci. I notice last three are giant locked, which doesn't look good, especially since this should be a loaded web server. I'll get a chance to open it after weekend, but I want to hear advice - does someone have experience with resolving such conflicts on proliants? - The showstopper: Sysinstall completes (though slowly), but on reboot the loader doesn't go further than the "F1 prompt" :( This is very curious, since when booting from install CD the loader shows it recognizes the CD drive and drives A: and C:, so BIOS seems to be ok. If I understand the loader correctly, after the "F1 prompt" phase, the loader should transfer control to the boot block of the first slice? I'll get a chance to work on it some more after weekend (after BBU is charged, hopefully), but this last issue looks like there might be a bug in sysinstall so I'm complaining early. The problems listed appear both on i386 and amd64 install images.
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