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Date:      Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:07:25 -0400
From:      "Douglas Berry" <bitnix@bitnix.ca>
To:        freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ProLiant DL360 G4p: ciss(4) boottime oddity 
Message-ID:  <200610191207.k9JC7P2A084664@monk.cnd.dundas.on.ca>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:30:16 %2B0200." <20061019113016.GE86656@math.jussieu.fr> 

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On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:30:16 +0200, Albert Shih wrote:
>  Le 19/10/2006  10:31:27+0700, Evgueni V. Gavrilov a =E9crit
> > ehlo
> >=20
> > I've got several ProLiant DL360 G4p servers running RELENG_6.
> > Everything is ok except boottime: boot process becomes frozen for sev=
eral minutes after these messages
> >=20
> > Oct 18 16:38:35 siziph kernel: da0 at ciss0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> > Oct 18 16:38:35 siziph kernel: da0: <COMPAQ RAID 1  VOLUME OK> Fixed =
Direct Access SCSI-0 device
> > Oct 18 16:38:35 siziph kernel: da0: 135.168MB/s transfers
> > Oct 18 16:38:35 siziph kernel: da0: 286095MB (585922680 512 byte sect=
ors: 255H 63S/T 36472C)
> >=20
> > Several minutes later boot process proceeds
> >=20
> > Oct 18 16:38:35 siziph kernel: GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider acd0 is=
 iso9660/FreeBSD_Install.
> > Oct 18 16:38:35 siziph kernel: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/da0=
s1a
> >=20
> > One of those servers (DL360 G4p) still out of production, so I can ut=
ilize it for investigation on the trouble. Are there any developers/hacke=
rs who interested in solving of the trouble?
> >=20
> > Also I would be glad to receive advises since I ain't kernel hacker :=
)
>=20
> I've many DL/ML and all have this =ABproblem=BB, fortunaly after there =
boot
> there working very well.
>=20
> Maybe not very big problem ?
>=20

I've had success in speeding up the boot on a DL360-G4 by disabling=20
the floppy :-) in the BIOS.

cheers,
doug




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