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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?



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