Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 11:46:49 -0500 From: "Shawn Barnhart" <swb@grasslake.net> To: "Mike Smith" <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: HPDA/DAC960PL (was Re: How good is AMI MegaRAID support?) Message-ID: <005101bfb456$02d20a50$b8209fc0@marlowe> References: <200004302232.PAA03609@mass.cdrom.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Smith" <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> | > | I'm fairly sure that 2.42 or later will work. | > | > I took a leap of faith and downloaded 2.73 from Mylex web site and | > flashed it onto my HPDA aka 960PL card. With the Mylex utils and the | > new firmware I've found I have two dead disks in this cabinet, but I was | > able to format the three remaining as RAID5. | > | > Unfortunately, I'm still getting the above error message. Any potential | > workarounds? | | No - it's going to take a driver fix. Let me get back to you on this in | a day or two. (bug me if I don't) Well, I have good news, I think. The mlx driver _seems_ to work as-is (from a kernel built with 4.0-STABLE). I get a warning about an old BIOS rev, but it looks functional. The driver reported the correct logical drive size and no other errors. It's not a complete test, though. The machine (HP LX Pro 166) it was in has a fsck'd memory controller and won't boot a 4.x kernel _at all_ (hangs creating the memory disk(s)), so a I swapped it into another LX Pro sans disk drives and watched the kernel boot. I'm definitely not getting the error messages I got about the mailbox on the other DAC960PL. I'm not able to do a whole lot more testing of it until I get a new system board for the damaged LX Pro 166, which the Boss thankfully hadn't yet removed 24x7 4 Hour support. When I get it running, I'll get 4-STABLE on it (on the array) and have a go at mlxcontrol and see what it will and won't do. For what's it's worth, this DAC960 PL is a series 4030-354. The other one was a series 4030-345. Mylex says no BIOS upgrade chips to anyone with a pre-4030-350 series card. Whatever the reason there must be some significant architectual differences starting with series 350 that make them kind of braindead. Mylex's web site is down/unreachable right now, or I'd order the firmware upgrade, too. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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