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Date:      Wed, 16 Feb 2000 15:14:00 -0500
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.ca>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466)
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.20000216151400.00ff5e40@marble.sentex.ca>

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Hi,
	I have been trying to get a PERC 2 (aka MegaRAID 466) working with
Current.  The box worked fine with the 428, but seems to barf with only the
controller swapped.

newmail# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ramrd0 bs=1k count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1024 bytes transferred in 0.000446 secs (2295546 bytes/sec)
newmail# !fd
fdisk amrd0
******* Working on device /dev/ramrd0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=2217 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)

Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=2217 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)

fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
    start 1, size 35616104 (17390 Meg), flag 80 (active)
        beg: cyl 0/ sector 2/ head 0;
        end: cyl 168/ sector 63/ head 254
newmail# disklabel -Brw amrd0 auto
newmail# disklabel -e amrd0
disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Invalid argument

FreeBSD newmail.sentex.ca 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #0: Wed Feb 16
07:41:02 GMT 2000
mdtancsa@newmail.sentex.ca:/usr/src/sys/compile/newmail  i386
newmail# dmesg | grep amr
amr0: <AMI MegaRAID> mem 0xe9000000-0xe93fffff irq 11 at device 12.1 on pci0
amr0: firmware 3.00 bios 1.36  32MB memory
amrd0: <MegaRAID logical drive> on amr0
amrd0: 17396MB (35627008 sectors) RAID 5 (optimal)
newmail# 


This is using the BIOS from Dell.  Should I be trying the latest and
greatest directly from AMI ?  There is a warning from them however saying
not to use the AMI version with OEM cards.  Should I try it anyways ?

	---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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