From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 13 20:23:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wat-border.sentex.ca (waterloo-hespler.sentex.ca [199.212.135.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE95E37B7FE for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 20:23:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite-atm.sentex.ca [209.112.4.1]) by wat-border.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA54769; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 23:23:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id XAA15982; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 23:23:28 -0400 (EDT) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: jreddy@lightning.net (John Reddy) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel ISP2150, Mylex AcceleRAID 250 Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 03:19:25 GMT Message-ID: <396e85f5.1002903759@mail.sentex.net> References: <20000609085510.A29030@al.san.ru> In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 13 Jul 2000 17:38:20 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: > >I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.0 on an Intel ISP 2150 (LG440BX+) with dual >P3-800 CPU's. The drive system is a Mylex AcceleRAID 250 with 3 IBM >Ultrastar 18GB drives arranged in Raid 5. Shortly after I begin >installing, the system locks up. I get the error message: > >mlx0: controller wedged (not taking commands) > >Does anyone have an idea why this might be occuring? I've tried it with >floppies from 4.0-RELEASE, and from 4.0-20000712-STABLE, in hopes that >maybe a more recent kernel might help. > >Should I forsake the concept of a RAID controller card under FreeBSD and go >to external RAID? I'm looking for any insight people may have. Is there an option to reduce the amount of command tags ? Are the drives known to work with this controller ? msmith@freebsd.org might have suggestions. I have only used the DAC960PL and PD ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message