From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 17 2: 0:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from wells.tecc.co.uk (wells.tecc.co.uk [195.217.37.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 385C237B41A for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 02:00:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from leven (leven.tecc.co.uk [195.217.37.153]) by wells.tecc.co.uk (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA12092 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 10:00:19 GMT From: "Andy" To: "freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD. ORG" Subject: Q regarding booting from Mylex acceleraid170 Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 10:00:19 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Originally posted to questions- with no answer, maybe someone here can help? cheers Andy -----Original Message----- Sent: 12 December 2001 15:38 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Q regarding booting from Mylex acceleraid170 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). cheers Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message