Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 09:36:46 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D8ystein_Andreassen?= <oystein.andreassen@systec.no> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, msmith@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with MyLex KZPAC PCI RAID controller Message-ID: <15531.4990.536630.145584@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <E0B92A48AF8CD31185EA0008C778E0910E1507@skywalker.systec.no> References: <E0B92A48AF8CD31185EA0008C778E0910E1507@skywalker.systec.no>
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=D8ystein Andreassen writes: >=20 > Hello, >=20 > I have tried to install FreeBSD 4.5 (Release(?)) on a Digital Server= 5000 > Model 5303 6533A. > It has a MyLex KZPAC PCI RAID Controller. I manage to boot the CD an= d > everything seems fine until the file copying starts. > When the copying is around 23% of / it comes to a complete halt and = i get > ALOT of errors like > "mlx0: I/O error - attempt to write beyond end of drive" > I've read the mailinglists and found that this was a problem in 4.3 = (i386) > (mailinglist "current", may 2001). > So I tried to put the MyLex controller in an i386 machine. I still h= ad the > disks in the alpha. This worked fine! >=20 > I guess my question is: Why isn't the alpha driver updated while the= i386 > driver is? (I really hope that someone just forgot and it's VERY sim= ple to > fix!:) Its the same driver on all platforms. I'm a little out of my depth here, as I've never even seen a mylex card. One WAG I have is that perhaps the alpha is storing the size of the array someplace in the hosts firmware & when you moved the card to a PC, that information was cleared? Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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