Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:12:11 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Jacky Jack <jackyjack@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Promise TX2300 Message-ID: <200601171412.25229.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <BAY24-F894B3B8D849CA01DDD29AB61A0@phx.gbl>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tuesday 17 January 2006 13:32, Jacky Jack wrote: > Booting off of the 6.0-RELEASE-i386-bootonly or disc1 with a Promise TX2300 > card installed causes my box to reboot at the bootloader. Once the card is > pulled out I can boot off of either ISO's. > > Is there any known issues with the TX2300 card? I've had problems with Promise FT100/TX2 controllers with those symptons. Also I have seen the loader spin dumping register info until you press the reset switch. I found it was only a problem if an array was defined (hah, only..), it seemed to only happen on some BIOSen - I had no trouble with older K7 Epox motherboards but P4 ones and AMD64 Epox boards exhibited it. Unfortunately the only work around I have is to install on one disk using the motherboard controller then mirror onto the other after connecting it to the RAID. Obviously this only works if you want a mirror and is a PITA. I am not sure how to properly fix it though, or even whos fault it is (FreeBSD, mobo maker, or Promise) - in the P4 case I found that the BIOS would freeze solid when you entered the menu if an array was defined on the RAID card :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDzGeh5ZPcIHs/zowRAggoAJ0Q8fi07MyRml7TDo1ctN2fOo8JvwCgnPk4 reaB5PyXwaMMg9QT70HBveA= =7dKY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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