From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 4 4:57:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.campbell-mithun.com (Mercury.campbell-mithun.com [192.159.32.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9B2837B734 for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 04:57:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swb@accord.grasslake.net) Received: from accord.grasslake.net (honda.grasslake.net [192.168.1.1]) by mercury.campbell-mithun.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id GAA11202; Thu, 4 May 2000 06:01:55 -0500 Received: from localhost (swb@localhost) by accord.grasslake.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA15548; Thu, 4 May 2000 06:55:47 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from swb@accord.grasslake.net) Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 06:55:47 -0500 (CDT) From: Shawn Barnhart To: Mark Powell Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HPDA/DAC960PL errors In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 4 May 2000, Mark Powell wrote: > My two-penneth. I've a DAC960PL D040-345 that originally had firmware > v2.35. I got the v2.73 PL firmware off the web and successfully flashed > the card. It still reports the "no mailbox" problem, with 4.0-S as of a > couple of days ago. This backs up your 960PL observation, but shows that > -345 can be flashed. It can be flashed -- I flashed my D040-345 card, too, even though it was an HP OEM card. Mylex is pretty oblique about flash OEM cards on their web site -- they should just say that you can do it, but OEM supplied tools may no longer work. What it can't get is the firmware flash upgrade from Mylex -- they send you two flash chips, one for each socket on your card. The 3.x and above firmware requires more space than a single chip can provide. You need a series -347 or newer card to use the upgrade. That's why I'd make the speculation that there must have been an architecture change from -347 and on that enables memory mapping. > I'm still confused as to the FBSD RAID solution of choice, as the Mylex > isn't working either. I take it if I got a brand new DAC960, it'd work > fine? You'd have to ask Mr. Smith, I guess. Shortly I'm going to have an AMI Megaraid avaialable to try in FreeBSD. It's been working well with Linux for about a year now, I'm presuming it'll work in FreeBSD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message