From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 14 5:33:17 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB41C37B401 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 05:33:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from merlino.iscanet.com (merlino.iscanet.com [217.59.173.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A28543F18 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 05:33:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rlucia@alice.iscanet.com) Received: from alice.iscanet.com (root@alice.iscanet.com [217.59.173.230]) by merlino.iscanet.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0EDXJbO000651 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:33:20 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from rlucia@alice.iscanet.com) Received: from alice.iscanet.com (rlucia@localhost.iscanet.com [127.0.0.1]) by alice.iscanet.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0EDX9DR082006 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:33:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from rlucia@alice.iscanet.com) Received: (from rlucia@localhost) by alice.iscanet.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0EDX91Y082005 for stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:33:09 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:33:09 +0100 From: Rocco Lucia To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: amr woes Message-ID: <20030114133309.GA81985@iscanet.com> Mail-Followup-To: Rocco Lucia , stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <1041106124.3e0e04ccebcc2@www.gactr.uga.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1041106124.3e0e04ccebcc2@www.gactr.uga.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Disclaimer: The truth is out there X-Organization: Iscanet Internet Services X-Evil: Microsoft Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 03:08:44PM -0500, Robin P. Blanchard wrote: > happy christmas... happy new year :-) > using kernel sources from christmas day, -STABLE kernel freezes (not > panic) whilst attempting to initialize amr arrays on the following > systems: > > 1) dell 1550 (uni), A07, perc3/DCL ( bios 3.27, fw 1.7[2,4] ) > 2) dell 1550 (smp), A07, perc3/DCL ( bios 3.27, fw 1.7[2,4] ) > 3) dell 2450 (smp), A07, perc2/DC ( bios1p00, fw 1.06 ) > > reverting back to kernel built on 09 november allows system to boot. > > i'd hoped it was a firmware issue when the 1550's didn't come up; but > the flash didn't help. then to find the 2450 also not working... > I had same problem/behavior here with an AMI/LSILogic MegaRAID Express 300 (Series 490). Motherboard is dual processor Intel Cypress, used with only one processor and uniprocessor kernel. In my case just upgrading the firmware solved the problem. Old firmware worked with 4.7-RELEASE but froze with 4.7-STABLE as of this morning (and last friday): Jan 14 12:10:07 atlantic /kernel.old: FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #0: Wed Oct 9 15:08:34 GMT 2002 [snip] Jan 14 12:10:08 atlantic /kernel.old: amr0: mem 0xf4400000-0xf47fffff irq 10 at device 13.1 on pci0 Jan 14 12:10:08 atlantic /kernel.old: amr0: Firmware H793, BIOS 2c00, 32MB RAM New firmware works with 4.7-STABLE: Jan 14 13:50:51 atlantic /kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #0: Tue Jan 14 11:53:08 CET 2003 [snip] Jan 14 13:50:52 atlantic /kernel: amr0: mem 0xf4400000-0xf47fffff irq 10 at device 13.1 on pci0 Jan 14 13:50:52 atlantic /kernel: amr0: Firmware H79N, BIOS 2.10, 32MB RAM Rocco -- Rocco Lucia - rlucia@iscanet.com Iscanet Internet Services http://elisa.utopianet.net/~rlucia System and Network Admin C6E6 AC9A 1361 FB38 B47A 2792 9FC4 C52F 7A68 4468 Free unices for a free world. Support *BSD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message