From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 24 7: 6:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from vinyl.sentex.ca (vinyl.sentex.ca [209.112.4.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 652AC37BD2D; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 07:06:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.ca) Received: from simoeon (simeon.sentex.ca [209.112.4.47]) by vinyl.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA98434; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 10:06:49 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.ca) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20000224100338.028e5590@marble.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@marble.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 10:03:38 -0500 To: Mike Smith From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: BIOS and PERC 2/SC (was Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466) ) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200002240826.AAA00518@mass.cdrom.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Network Administrator, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message