Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 09:05:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Jin Guojun (DSD staff) <jin@george.lbl.gov> To: msmith@freebsd.org Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is 5-year old Mylex DAC960 too old? Message-ID: <200008091605.e79G55c11285@portnoy.lbl.gov>
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Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Wrote: > > > > } > I have a couple of 5-year old Mylex DAC960 adapters. The BIOS sees the > m ha > > > ving: > > > > } > > > > > } > Vendor ID = 1069 and the Device ID = 0200 > > > > } > > > > > } > But the 4.1-RELEASE cannot find it. > > > > } > > > > } This card might be an OEM version; can you check the BIOS/setup utilitie > s/ > > > > } stickers on the board etc.? > > > > > > I'd still like to know what this board actually is. Are there *any* > > > identifying labels/marks on the board at all? > > > > It seems not having setup utilities. No BIOS information. > > Have you tried downloading the setup utilities from the Mylex website? > Do they recognise the adapter? They have similar model to this but not exactly. I will try some of them on one of my board to see what will happen. > > > How long does it hang here? If the controller BIOS hasn't run (eg. there > > > is no BIOS, or the BIOS is not x86 code) then this process can take > > > several minutes. > > > > mlx0: <Mylex version 3 RAID interface> port 0xd000-0xd07f mem 0xe3000000-0xe30 > 0007f irq 10 at device 9.0 on pci0 > > mlx0: controller initialisation in progress... > > > > It deadly hangs. No softboot, no key stroke accepted. Have to do hardware rese > t. > > I have waited for at least 12 minutes :-( > > That would suggest that the card might actually be dead. Silly question > - is there any RAM in the socket on the board? Is it RAM that came with > the card, or some that you just dug up? These boards are a little picky > about memory, and the CPU may not boot with the wrong memory. Have you > tried both boards? > > I'll ask my contacts at Mylex and see if I can find out what the cards > are; for about $70 or so you can get a set of flash PROMs for these cards > that will update them to the most recent firmware - if yours have been > destroyed (eg. by a bad flash update) then that may be the only way out. > Both boards act the same way; one was opened a few years ago, and I opened the other one yesterday for comparsion. There is no RAM in the memory slot. Please let me know if you heard something from Mylex. In the meantime, I will try to play with one adapter. In the worst case, I will end up buying a set of new PROMs for this board if Mylex it can may it work. Thanks, -Jin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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