Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 21:37:25 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Adaptec/DPT SmartRAID V under FreeBSD 4.x-STABLE [was: Re: Mylex adapters with 2.x firmware and "couldn't map register window"] Message-ID: <v0422080eb5f01308bb85@[195.238.1.121]> In-Reply-To: <200008040734.AAA00618@mass.osd.bsdi.com> References: <200008040734.AAA00618@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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At 12:34 AM -0700 2000/8/4, Mike Smith wrote: > The fix for this has been committed to -stable, and there's a kit for > 4.1-RELEASE users wanting to install on these adapters at > http://people.freebsd.org/~msmith/RAID/mylex/mlx2_patchkit.tar.gz Okay, with your notes, I have gotten a 4.1-STABLE kernel to build and install with this driver, and I've plugged in a PM2654U2 controller into the machine, and connected it to the external enclosure for the drives. However, while the DPT card appears to come up okay and recognize the RAID-5 volume that was left over from the previous configuration, I can't get it to load SMOR -- it comes up and says "Cards are not configurable". Worse, whether or not I try to reconfigure the array, it gets to the Dell PowerEdge 1300 prompt "Alert! Cover was previously removed", and then the boot process hangs. I'm going to try going into the BIOS and configuring it so that it does not consider the DPT card to be bootable, and if that doesn't work I'll try hanging the internal hard drive off the DPT controller instead of the built-in AIC-7890 controller chip. However, if anyone else has any insights into this problem, I'd appreciate it. Thanks! -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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