From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 24 0:15:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (castles511.castles.com [208.214.165.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3CA537BB5F; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 00:15:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA00518; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 00:26:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200002240826.AAA00518@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Mike Tancsa Cc: Mike Smith , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BIOS and PERC 2/SC (was Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466) ) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 23 Feb 2000 19:10:42 EST." <4.2.2.20000223190830.03b74b88@mail.sentex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 00:26:40 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > >Hmm. I did some testing, and I can lock both the G6HC and G6HD firmware > > > >up within a few minutes. The Dell 3.00 firmware remains stable under the > > > >same load (20 simultaneous 'bonnie -s 100's). I'm fairly sure it's a > > > >firmware lockup - the SCSI bus is hung and usually the PCI bus as well. > > > > > > I am going to test the card in another older MB to see if its some strange > > > interaction. What MB chipset are you using to test with ? > > > >I've been testing most recently with the Intel 450NX and AMD 751. > > OK, on the PERC2/SC and LINUX with the firmware from Dell (3.00), it pukes > with Redhat LINUX. I am able to talk to the card, fdisk and newfs it, but > it crashes hard when you write to the partition. I am going to try and > reflash the card to the latest AMI BIOS and see what happens. How about with FreeBSD and the Dell firmware? Let's keep the number of variables down. 8) -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message