From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 4 17:42:36 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9686116A4BF for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 17:42:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mauibuilt.com (mauibuilt.com [205.166.249.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6514543FBD for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 17:42:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from puga@mauibuilt.com) Received: from mauibuilt.com (ydilcl@puga.mauibuilt.com [205.166.10.2]) by mauibuilt.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h850gYXo087060 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 14:42:34 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from puga@mauibuilt.com) Sender: puga@mauibuilt.com Message-ID: <3F57DBF6.A96CABE3@mauibuilt.com> Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 14:42:30 -1000 From: Richard Puga Organization: Maui Built Machines X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: ips.ko load sequence for IBM ServerRaid 5i X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 00:42:36 -0000 I do have the ips driver working with the IBM ServerRaid 5i. However it only works if I boot of an IDE drive and load the driver after the kernel is loaded. What I believe the problem to be is the fact that this "Raid" card is just an add in card to a modified PCI slot that makes the on board LSI dual channel controller into a RAID, and something in the kernel is loading (not the LSI driver its been taken out) which makes these 2 separate devices act as one through the PCI bus and is the reason it can only be loaded after booting. I believe a quick and dirty fix for this may be to load the ips.ko module after the kernel has booted and before init mounts /. Is there a way to do this via something in /boot/loader (the standard way in loader.conf loads it too soon) or perhaps a way to compile isp into the kernel in a way that it would be probed at a later time or in a different sequence? Thanks again in advance Richard Puga puga@mauibuilt.com