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Date:      Thu, 24 Feb 2000 10:03:38 -0500
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.ca>
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:  <3.0.5.32.20000224100338.028e5590@marble.sentex.ca>
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 2/24/00 -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)

OK, I have flashed the BIOS of the card to the latest version from AMI, and
booted it up with RedHAT (latest kernel compiled) with various patches, and
the driver compiled directly into the kernel, not as a module.  Note, these
are the drivers that come with RedHAT. I havent tried the RPMs directly
from AMI/Dell

megaraid: v107 (December 22, 1999)
megaraid: found 0x8086:0x1960:idx 0:bus 0:slot 10:func 1
scsi1 : Found a MegaRAID controller at 0xd0002000, IRQ: 12
megaraid: [GH6D:1.43] detected 1 logical drives
scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.25/3.2.4
       <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter>
scsi1 : AMI MegaRAID GH6D 254 commands 16 targs 1 chans 8 luns

megaraid: v107 (December 22, 1999)
megaraid: found 0x8086:0x1960:idx 0:bus 0:slot 10:func 1
scsi1 : Found a MegaRAID controller at 0xd0002000, IRQ: 12
megaraid: [GH6D:1.43] detected 1 logical drives
scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.25/3.2.4
       <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter>
scsi1 : AMI MegaRAID GH6D 254 commands 16 targs 1 chans 8 luns
SCSI device sdc: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 6199296 [3027 MB] [3.0 GB]

Then tried
/usr/local/bin/bonnie -s 100 -d /mnt &
/usr/local/bin/bonnie -s 100 -d /mnt &
/usr/local/bin/bonnie -s 100 -d /mnt &
/usr/local/bin/bonnie -s 100 -d /mnt &
/usr/local/bin/bonnie -s 100 -d /mnt &
/usr/local/bin/bonnie -s 100 -d /mnt &
/usr/local/bin/bonnie -s 100 -d /mnt &
/usr/local/bin/bonnie -s 100 -d /mnt &

Its slow, but the server does not crash..... However, if Queing enabled, it
does crash.  However, this could be due to the old Segates  ( ST31055W )
that I am using to test with.  I did try the same on FreeBSD, but it did
not have any positive effect.  So it seems the card does work... 

	---Mike
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Mike Tancsa,                          	          tel +1 519 651 3400
Network Administrator,     			  mike@sentex.net
Sentex Communications                 		  www.sentex.net
Cambridge, Ontario Canada


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