From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 24 4:53:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from vinyl.sentex.ca (vinyl.sentex.ca [209.112.4.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC20937BCF0; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 04:53:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite-atm.sentex.ca [209.112.4.1]) by vinyl.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA78568; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 07:53:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id HAA15919; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 07:53:29 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000224074639.03308aa8@mail.sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@mail.sentex.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 07:51:25 -0500 To: Mike Smith From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: BIOS and PERC 2/SC (was Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466) ) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200002240826.AAA00518@mass.cdrom.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12:26 AM 2/24/2000 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > 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) I cant disklabel the drive when using the 3.00 firmware from dell. newmail# disklabel -Brw amrd0 auto newmail# disklabel -e amrd0 disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Invalid argument Its entirely possible the card is cooked. I am going to test the latest firmware with LINUX when I get back to the office today. ---Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message