From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 23 0:21:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rush.telenordia.se (mail.telenordia.se [194.213.64.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 150A937B416 for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 00:21:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 25386 invoked from network); 23 Dec 2001 09:21:07 +0100 Received: from bb-62-5-36-29.bb.tninet.se (HELO there) (62.5.36.29) by mail.telenordia.se with SMTP; 23 Dec 2001 09:21:07 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Mark Rowlands To: "Andy" , Subject: Re: Q regarding booting from Mylex acceleraid170 Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 09:22:02 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20011223082110.150A937B416@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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: 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