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Date:      Thu, 24 Feb 2000 00:26:40 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: BIOS and PERC 2/SC (was Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466) ) 
Message-ID:  <200002240826.AAA00518@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 Feb 2000 19:10:42 EST." <4.2.2.20000223190830.03b74b88@mail.sentex.net> 

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> > > >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.
> > >
> > > I am going to test the card in another older MB to see if its some strange
> > > interaction.  What MB chipset are you using to test with ?
> >
> >I've been testing most recently with the Intel 450NX and AMD 751.
> 
> OK, on the PERC2/SC and LINUX with the firmware from Dell (3.00), it pukes 
> with Redhat LINUX.  I am able to talk to the card, fdisk and newfs it, but 
> it crashes hard when you write to the partition.  I am going to try and 
> reflash the card to the latest AMI BIOS and see what happens.

How about with FreeBSD and the Dell firmware?  Let's keep the number of 
variables down. 8)

-- 
\\ 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




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