Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 09:22:02 +0100 From: Mark Rowlands <mark.rowlands@minmail.net> To: "Andy" <andy@tecc.co.uk>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Q regarding booting from Mylex acceleraid170 Message-ID: <20011223082110.150A937B416@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <JKEDIJOJNFIFJEOHHPCBMEPACAAA.andy@tecc.co.uk> References: <JKEDIJOJNFIFJEOHHPCBMEPACAAA.andy@tecc.co.uk>
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On Wednesday 12 December 2001 4:38 pm, Andy wrote: > Hi All > > I have a Dell Poweredge 2550 with on board SCSI 7899 controller. > That controller is not actually fitted to any drives, only the > tape unit (DDS3). > > I actually have a Mylex Acceleraid170 board attached to the four > Scsi drives creating a single drive volume. All seems to work fine > but the boot up is painfully slow, for example:- > > > /kernel: acd0: CDROM <TEAC CD-ROM CD-224E> at ata0-master using PIO4 > /kernel: Waiting 3 seconds for SCSI devices to settle > > [Wait 2.5 minutes here, then] > > /kernel: mly0: physical device 0:6 sense data received > /kernel: mly0: sense key 5 asc 00 ascq 00 > /kernel: mly0: info 00000000 csi 00000000 > > [Wait a further 3 minutes here, then] > > /kernel: mly0: enclosure 6 unit 0 access offline > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a > > [Wait a further 2 minutes here then] > > /kernel: da0 at mly0 bus 1 target 0 lun 0 > /kernel: da0: <RAID 5 online > Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device > /kernel: da0: 135.168MB/s transfers > /kernel: da0: 34688MB (71041024 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4422C) > > [booting continues normally from here] > > Anyone any idea why this is all so slow? Not complaining too > much since it works but I can't help thinking I've done something > wrong because of this. > > fyi I'm running 4-STABLE [as of 12/12/2001] and it happens with both > GENERIC and my custom kernel. Before going to STABLE I installed R4.3 > from CDRom and it did the same there also (GENERIC and custom). have you any unconfigured disks attached? -- There are many people today who literally do not have a close personal friend. They may know something that we don't. They are probably avoiding a great deal of pain. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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