Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 08:13:59 -0800 From: "pan" <pan@npqr.net> To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: more => 4.5r -> 4.5s panic: breaks raid array Message-ID: <03fc01c1d4e1$3d1b1640$2813933f@cat>
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additional data re previous posting
For this mb there are several bios flashes available from Abit
and several htp372 flashes available from Via
(the KR7A-RAID uses a mb mounted hpt 372 not a card so
flashes from Highpoint are irrelevant)
Tested combinations of bios/hpt flashes with these results
Abit 6g + Via 2.0.1024
-- 4.5r(CDROM) installs;
-- cvsup to 4.5s breaks ar0
Abit 6g + Via 2.0.1203
-- 4.5r(CDROM) installs
-- cvsup to 4.5s breaks ar0
Abit 6n + Via 2.0.1024
-- 4.5r(CDROM) installs
-- cvsup to 4.5s breaks ar0
Abit 6n + Via 2.3.1
!! 4.5r(CDROM) install fails
All cases of attempted dangerously dedicated 4.5r install failed.
Only default disklabel and fdisk with standard mbr sysinstall
choices allowed install.
Possible clue: Even though in-core and raw disklabels are identical
(both before and after invoking post-install sysinstall),
invoking sysinstall after install produces a write to console referring
to "slice != partition", i.e. the old "slice extends beyond end of disk"
error. At no time during operation of any other process besides sysinstall
does this message appear - must be related to ata driver not handling
hpt372 correctly?
Possible clue: When cvsup to 4.5s reports what it believes to be a broken
ar0 raid0 array and subsequent reboot to kernel.old, ar0 operates just
fine - the actual raid array is never broken - only fbsd 4.5s thinks it is.
Tested both with custom kernel and GENERIC; nothing extra-ordinary
Besides the bios flash code issues this has to be an issue with the ata
driver in 4.5s
What other data can I try to provide?
Is there any way to preserve console messages when 4.5s fails?
When 4.5s thinks ar0 is broken there isn't any place for it to write
boot messages to ... can fd0 have dmesg streamed to it during boot? -
probably not as boot never completes with a 4.5s kernel.
Abit KR7A-RAID w HPT372
Athlon XP 1900+
1024 mgB
Raid 0 with
2 x Maxtor 6L040J2 UDMA 133 hdd
{ar0: ad4/ad5}
Pan
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