Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 07:51:25 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BIOS and PERC 2/SC (was Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466) ) Message-ID: <4.2.2.20000224074639.03308aa8@mail.sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <200002240826.AAA00518@mass.cdrom.com> References: <Your message of "Wed, 23 Feb 2000 19:10:42 EST." <4.2.2.20000223190830.03b74b88@mail.sentex.net>
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At 12:26 AM 2/24/2000 -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
> > 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)
I cant disklabel the drive when using the 3.00 firmware from dell.
newmail# disklabel -Brw amrd0 auto
newmail# disklabel -e amrd0
disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Invalid argument
Its entirely possible the card is cooked. I am going to test the latest
firmware with LINUX when I get back to the office today.
---Mike
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