From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 9 11:27:39 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8199916A403 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 2006 11:27:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmp.lists@alvorlig.dk) Received: from cauchy.aub.dk (cauchy.aub.dk [194.255.124.240]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8785543CAE for ; Sat, 9 Dec 2006 11:26:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jmp.lists@alvorlig.dk) Received: from localhost (localhost.aub.dk [127.0.0.1]) by cauchy.aub.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDC871145E; Sat, 9 Dec 2006 12:27:33 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at aub.dk Received: from cauchy.aub.dk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cauchy.aub.dk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Llbtk1Bwyfeq; Sat, 9 Dec 2006 12:27:27 +0100 (CET) Received: from [10.4.50.223] (unknown [10.4.50.223]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: jmp) by cauchy.aub.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D93E1149B; Sat, 9 Dec 2006 12:27:27 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <457A9DA0.1020601@alvorlig.dk> Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 12:27:28 +0100 From: "J. Martin Petersen" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061110) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <4578E1AD.3090505@isc.org> In-Reply-To: <4578E1AD.3090505@isc.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Peter_Losher@isc.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6 (or 7) on a HP DL140 G3 SATA X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 11:27:39 -0000 Peter Losher wrote: > Just got my hands on a HP DL140 G3 (generation 3) server, which has a > LSI Logic SAS controller. I suppose you mean the one with the hot-swappable disks? > You can run the live CD or install FreeBSD > (6.2-RC1 or 7-CURRENT) onto the HD's, but when you boot from the disks, > the boot loader barfs: > > -=- > int=0000000d err=0000001a efl=00030287 eip=0000291d > eax=1400000a ebx=00000b3e ecx=00000000 edx=0000c900 > esi=00000d1c edi=00000001 ebp=00000206 esp=00000200 > cs=c900 ds=9a00 es=9a00 fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=9a00 > cs:eip=cc 68 32 06 ff 34 e8 db-fc 83 c4 04 89 46 fe 5f > 5e c9 c3 55 8b ec 1e 33-c0 8e d8 a0 75 04 3c 00 > ss:esp=1c 0d 02 00 00 00 34 02-d8 45 1c 0d 00 00 00 14 > 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00-1c 0d 02 00 00 00 00 00 > BTX halted > -=- > > Here is the relevant BIOS output from the controller: > > -=- > LSI Logic Corp. MPT SAS BIOS > MPTBIOS-6.06.08.00 (2006.05.16) > Copyright 2000-2006 LSI Logic Corp. > > > SLOT ID LUN VENDOR PRODUCT REVISION CAPACITY > ---- --- --- -------- ---------------- ---------- ---------- > 3 LSILogic SAS1068-IR 1.10.01.00 > -=- > > Has anyone gotten one of these to run FreeBSD from the HD's successfully? Yes; we got similar results until we upgraded the system BIOS and the controller firmware (both are available somewhere on hp.com). We're now having a different problem; once -CURRENT (or 6.2-RC1) is installed and running, the disk performance is abysmal. I/O-wise it is maxing out around 6MB/sec, which seems far from impressive. We have tried both with and without RAID configured through the controller (i.e., with RAID-1 and with just two seperate disks), and results are identical. There does not seem to be any spurious interrupts, and there is no load on the system when doing disk I/O. This is for -CURRENT as of yesterday evening (after the latest commits to dev/mpt). Martin