Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 21:50:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: Andrew Snow <als@kanji.com.au> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ibm x345 w/ serveraid-5i + freebsd ips driver dramas Message-ID: <20030914214758.W5214@root.org> In-Reply-To: <3F64E50E.2040608@kanji.com.au> References: <3F64E50E.2040608@kanji.com.au>
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On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Andrew Snow wrote: > Problem 1: (the annoying setback) > > I cannot got the serveraid-5i card to work with FreeBSD 5.x (tried > 5.1-REL and the latest current.iso). I am using the latest firmware and > BIOS for the card from IBM (6.10.24). While the card is detected while > the kernel is booting, the drive sizes are incorrectly listed (current > number, but they are listed as megabytes instead of bytes) and there is > a kernel panic a short time later when (I think) it tries to initialise > the card. > > I its something to do with the fact that it is a "zero channel" card > design which uses the on-board LSI-based controller (which works just > fine with 5.1-REL). > > Following the advice of someone on the mailing list, I tried booting > from an IDE drive and then loading ips as a KLD. This time it worked: > > ips0: <IBM ServeRAID Adapter> mem 0xf4000000-0xf7ffffff irq 11 at device > 2.0 on pci8 > ips0: logical drives: 1 > ipsd0: <Logical Drive> on ips0 > ipsd0: Logical Drive (138860MB) This problem was fixed last week by a commit by Paul Saab. You can wait for 5.2R or use -current. > Problem 2: (the biggest problem) > > While the drive size is reported correctly, the geometry is wrong... > 472 cyls/254 heads/63 sectors = 7552944 sectors (3687MB) ?! > > When setting the BIOS to "non-extended" (2GB max) support mode, freebsd > then thinks this is the geometry: > 1846 cyls/128 heads/32 sectors = 7561216 sectors (3692MB). > > So I tested a few alternate geometries instead and even though there > were no error messages, it seemed to get reset to what FreeBSD was > reporting, no matter how many ways I tried to use the fdisk utility. This is not the driver's fault but fdisk's. I really hate FreeBSD's fdisk and do not ever use it. -Nate
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