From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 2 14:19:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 743D637C55F for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 14:12:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from linux.nu (port255.cvx3-mal.ppp.netlink.se [62.66.14.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 72FBA447A8 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 11:45:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thrawn@linux.nu) Received: (qmail 44493 invoked by uid 1022); 2 Jul 2002 18:46:28 -0000 Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 20:46:28 +0200 From: thrawn@linux.nu To: Byron Schlemmer Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMI MegaRAID + Reboot issues Message-ID: <20020702204628.C67665@thrawn.birch.se> References: <20020702155421.C3475-100000@pan.ehsbrann.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020702155421.C3475-100000@pan.ehsbrann.com>; from me@byron.me.uk on Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 04:49:41PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Have you tryed to downgrade/upgrade de firmwire on the AMI cards? Just a thought. Mvh Mattias Björk On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 04:49:41PM +0100, Byron Schlemmer wrote: > > Hi, > > I've posted on this before, and I've received no reply. I'm > cross-posting just in case it was missed before (I am desperate for > help) and to ask for further advice. > > Basically we have a number of FreeBSD servers, running 4.5-RELEASE and > 4.6-RELEASE, that use AMI MegaRaid 500 controllers. These boxes refuse > to reboot when sent a reboot or shutdown -r. They simply close all > processes and show : > > amr0: flushing cache...done > Rebooting... > > At this point the numlock key is locked, and Ctrl + Alt + Deleting does > nothing. > > The exact dmesg shows: > > amr0: mem 0xffff0000-0xffffffff irq 11 at device 11.0 on pci0 > amr0: Firmware E161, BIOS 3.13, 32MB RAM > > This is the same controller in both boxes that is giving us this > particular problem. > > Has anybody experienced and managed to solve this problem. Not being > able to remotely reboot our servers is not a good thing. Are there any > other recommended AMI controllers? What I find odd is this controller is > specifically mentioned in both the Hardware Notes and amr(4). > > -byron > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message