From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 17 03:42:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2735516A41F for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 03:42:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CD0743D45 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 03:42:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp209-190.lns1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.122.209.190]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.5/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k0H3gUCq006563 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:12:32 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:12:11 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1795151.66ck93h0Vf"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200601171412.25229.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: 0 () X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.54 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Jacky Jack Subject: Re: Promise TX2300 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 03:42:41 -0000 --nextPart1795151.66ck93h0Vf Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 17 January 2006 13:32, Jacky Jack wrote: > Booting off of the 6.0-RELEASE-i386-bootonly or disc1 with a Promise TX23= 00 > card installed causes my box to reboot at the bootloader. Once the card = is > pulled out I can boot off of either ISO's. > > Is there any known issues with the TX2300 card? I've had problems with Promise FT100/TX2 controllers with those symptons. A= lso=20 I have seen the loader spin dumping register info until you press the reset= =20 switch. I found it was only a problem if an array was defined (hah, only..), it see= med=20 to only happen on some BIOSen - I had no trouble with older K7 Epox=20 motherboards but P4 ones and AMD64 Epox boards exhibited it. Unfortunately the only work around I have is to install on one disk using t= he=20 motherboard controller then mirror onto the other after connecting it to th= e=20 RAID. Obviously this only works if you want a mirror and is a PITA. I am not sure how to properly fix it though, or even whos fault it is=20 (FreeBSD, mobo maker, or Promise) - in the P4 case I found that the BIOS=20 would freeze solid when you entered the menu if an array was defined on the= =20 RAID card :( =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1795151.66ck93h0Vf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDzGeh5ZPcIHs/zowRAggoAJ0Q8fi07MyRml7TDo1ctN2fOo8JvwCgnPk4 reaB5PyXwaMMg9QT70HBveA= =7dKY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1795151.66ck93h0Vf--