Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 14:48:59 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.ca> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BIOS and PERC 2/SC (was Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466) ) Message-ID: <200002182248.OAA01326@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Feb 2000 10:37:09 EST." <3.0.5.32.20000217103709.01c2f7b0@marble.sentex.ca>
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> OK, I took a chance and flashed the card's BIOS to the latest from the AMI > site.... I had been suspecting BIOS, as the readme.txt mentioned problems > with newer motherboards. Lo and Behold, it seems to have done the trick > > amr0: <AMI MegaRAID> mem 0xe9000000-0xe93fffff irq 11 at device 12.1 on pci0 > amr0: firmware GH6D bios 1.43 32MB memory > amrd0: <MegaRAID logical drive> on amr0 > amrd0: 17522MB (35885056 sectors) RAID 5 (optimal) > > As I mentioned, the card came as a Dell unit. I tried the latest BIOS from > Dell, but that was a year old. The BIOS from megaraid.com 1.43, which is > in there now *seems* to work so far.... At least I can now get a disklable > on the drive and newfs the drive Hmm. I did some testing, and I can lock both the G6HC and G6HD firmware up within a few minutes. The Dell 3.00 firmware remains stable under the same load (20 simultaneous 'bonnie -s 100's). I'm fairly sure it's a firmware lockup - the SCSI bus is hung and usually the PCI bus as well. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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