Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 17:18:53 -0500 From: "Brandon DeYoung" <brandon@schoolpeople.net> To: <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Problems installing 4.1 on 3ware RAID 5200 & 6200 Message-ID: <00f601c015f4$f3dfae20$4702a8c0@schoolpeople.net> References: <200009031931.MAA00828@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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Hello all,
...I must be doing something wrong.
I've been trying to get a new FreeBSD 4.1 (Release) system up using the
3ware 5200 ATA RAID controller for the past few days. In short the install
exists after "Extracting manpages into / directory" with the following
error:
twe0: unexpected status bit(s) 200000 <MCERR>
twe0: unexpected status bit(s) 200000 <MCERR>
twe0: unexpected status bit(s) 200000 <MCERR>
twe0: unexpected status bit(s) 200000 <MCERR>
twe0: unexpected status bit(s) 200000 <MCERR>
twe0: unexpected status bit(s) 200000 <MCERR>
twe0: unexpected status bit(s) 200000 <MCERR>
twe0: unexpected status bit(s) 200000 <MCERR>
1111111111111
giving up on 1 buffers
uptime: 3m10s
....
then it reboots with the OS only partially installed.
Exhaustive install and hardware info below:
I used 3Ware's bios utility to set up a RAID 1 array with two 30.6 GB
Seagate hard drives.
When booting 3Ware's bios displays the following message:
Array Unit 0 - Mirror 30.6 GB INIT Array (after F8)
Port 0 - ST330630A 30.6 GB
Port 1 - ST330630A 30.6 GB
xxx Press <Alt-3> to access 3Ware configuration screen xxx
I'm booting to a 4.1 Release CD-ROM (made from a dowloaded ISO image).
I chose "skip kernel configuration and continue with installation".
I chose standard install.
I chose X-Developer
I've tried various partition sizes but typically
/ = 200 MB
/var = 200MB
swap = 128MB
/usr = 500MB - 30.5 GB
The system reports:
"Doing newfs -b 8192 -f 1024 /mnt/dev/rtwed0s1f"
"Extracting bin into / directory"
"Extracting doc into / directory"
"Extracting manpages into / directory"
It usually craps out at this point but will occaisionally get a little
further but invariably display's:
"twe0: unexpected status bit(s) 200000 <MCERR>"
I've tried this with 128 MB NON-ECC, 256MB NON-ECC, and 256MB ECC RAM. I've
also tried both 5200 and 6200 3Ware escalade controllers:
Asus P2B-N Motherboard (440 BX w/ integrated intel 10/100 and ATI Rage Pro)
466 MHz Celeron processor.
Two 30.6 Seagate Barracuda hard drives conected to the 3ware controlled.
One Generic CDROM conected to the onboard IDE controller.
I've even broken down and read 3Ware's user guide. Of course it only covered
Linux and Windoze installation.
Help?
~Brandon
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