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Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Philip Murray <pmurray@nevada.net.nz>
Subject: Re: Areca weirdness
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Scott Long wrote:
> Andre Oppermann wrote:
>> Scott Long wrote:
>>> For the Areca driver, it's harmless.  I still haven't narrowed
>>> down the actual problem, unfortunately.
>>
>> I see the same on a new box with FreeBSD 7.0BETA4 AMD64. Unfortunately
>> it just stops and hangs here:
>>
>> arcmsr0: <Areca SATA Host Adapter RAID Controller (RAID6 capable)> mem 
>> 0xfdbff000-0xfdbfffff,0xfd400000-0xfd7fffff irq 16 at device 14.0 on 
>> pci10
>> ARECA RAID ADAPTER0: Driver Version 1.20.00.14 2007-2-05
>> ARECA RAID ADAPTER0: FIRMWARE VERSION V1.43 2007-4-17
>> arcmsr0: [ITHREAD]
>> ...
>> Waiting 5 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
>> (probe23:arcmsr0:0:16:0): inquiry data fails comparison at DV1 step
>>
>> [hangs...]
>>
>> The controller is an ARC-1220 PCI-Express with 8 SATA ports.  The
>> firmware is the newest according to their website.  Connected are
>> 4 Seagate 750GB SATA drives (the ES 24x7 variant).  With 6.3RC1
>> AMD64 it works just fine.
>>
> 
> Can you break into the debugger and see if it's getting an interrupt 
> storm or is spinning in code or is sleeping somewhere odd?

No, break doesn't work.  It's the generic kernel from the BETA4
boot CDROM.  Neither does CTRL-ALT-DEL work.  NumLock can be toggled
though.  Other than that only a hard reset recovers the box.

-- 
Andre