Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 23:20:12 -0700 (PDT) From: LukeD@pobox.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RAID card confusing mptable? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.58.0404292248590.14141@otaku.freeshell.org>
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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: <Promise PDC20371 SATA150 controller> 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.
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