From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 29 23:20:15 2004 Return-Path: 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 5123816A4CE for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 23:20:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (ol.freeshell.org [192.94.73.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C748143D45 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 23:20:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lukas@sdf.lonestar.org) Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (IDENT:lukas@otaku.freeshell.org [192.94.73.2]) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i3U6KDR9022912 for ; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 06:20:13 GMT Received: (from lukas@localhost) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id i3U6KD29012391; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 23:20:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 23:20:12 -0700 (PDT) From: LukeD@pobox.com X-X-Sender: lukas@otaku.freeshell.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: RAID card confusing mptable? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: LukeD@pobox.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 06:20:15 -0000 I've got an American Megatrends Titan III PCI EISA Pentium motherboard from around 1996. I have two Pentium 166MHz processors (P54C) on it. I recently bought a brand new Promise FastTrak S150 TX2plus RAID controller and a couple of parallel ATA hard drives to go with it. I installed i386 FreeBSD-CURRENT 5.2.1 generic. If I did not configure any RAID arrays through the hardware BIOS on the controller card, the card was detected and the system would start. If I configured a RAID array in the hardware, the system would always reboot while probing the hardware. I wanted to be able to use the RAID capabilities of the card, and I thought an update might help, so I updated to the latest code I could get and rebuilt the world and the kernel, using the latest GENERIC configuration. This was yesterday 4/18, and I finished the process today 4/19. I have the same problem, except that instead of a reboot when I have a RAID array configured, I get an error message during the mptable_probe: "Panic: mptable_walk_table: Unknown MP Config Entry 18 at line 401 in file /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/mptable.c" For comparison, if RAID is not configured on the card, the system boots, but during the mptable_probe I get an "MP Config Table has bad signature: \^B" Then later when it gets around to detecting the RAID card, I see this: atapci1: port 0xea80-0xeaff,0xefa0-0xefaf, 0xee80-0xeebf mem 0xffac0000-0xffadffff,0xffaff000-0xffafffff irq 9 at device 11 .0 on pci0 atapci1: failed: rid 0x20 is memory, requested 4 atapci1: Reserved 0x20000 bytes for rid 0x20 type 3 at 0xffac0000 atapci1: Reserved 0x1000 bytes for rid 0x1c type 3 at 0xffaff000 Running the mptable utility after the system has started doesn't yield any unusual results or the mysterious \^B signature. I've tried booting with and without ACPI, but there's no difference. Can anyone give me any troubleshooting advice? I am still very new to FreeBSD.