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Date:      Wed, 16 Nov 2005 15:57:57 -0000
From:      "Lawrence Farr" <freebsd-stable@epcdirect.co.uk>
To:        "'Doug White'" <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org, =?iso-8859-1?Q?'S=F8ren_Schmidt'?= <sos@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   RE: Promise TX4300 boot problems
Message-ID:  <013301c5eac6$83219ed0$0200a8c0@lfarr>
In-Reply-To: <20051115152334.S33844@carver.gumbysoft.com>

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> 
> > I've stuck a Promise TX4300 controller in to replace
> > the marvell onboard SATA that I can't boot off on a
> > Supermicro server. If I set 2 discs up as Raid 0
> > or Raid 1 it's fine, But 4 discs as Raid 0+1 is detected,
> > installs without any problems, but hangs at the boot
> > loader with elf32_loadimage: read failed. I'm guesssing
> > the boot loader thinks it's a mirror, not a stripe and
> > fails to read past the first stripe on the disk?
> 
> If this is the case then its a bug in the controller 
> firmware; loader is
> just doing BIOS I/O calls. Check for a firmware update for your
> controller.


It's the latest version of the firmware. I'll go back to using
a mirror.




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