Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 19:10:42 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BIOS and PERC 2/SC (was Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466) ) Message-ID: <4.2.2.20000223190830.03b74b88@mail.sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <200002230519.VAA00682@mass.cdrom.com> References: <Your message of "Wed, 23 Feb 2000 04:59:17 GMT." <38b368b7.105281807@mail.sentex.net>
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At 09:19 PM 2/22/2000 -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
> > On 18 Feb 2000 17:39:19 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.current you wrote:
> > >
> > >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.
> >
> > I am going to test the card in another older MB to see if its some strange
> > interaction. What MB chipset are you using to test with ?
>
>I've been testing most recently with the Intel 450NX and AMD 751.
OK, on the PERC2/SC and LINUX with the firmware from Dell (3.00), it pukes
with Redhat LINUX. I am able to talk to the card, fdisk and newfs it, but
it crashes hard when you write to the partition. I am going to try and
reflash the card to the latest AMI BIOS and see what happens.
---Mike
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