From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 2 8:51:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CBEF37B400; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 08:51:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clientmail.ehsrealtime.com (eris.ehsrealtime.com [213.52.146.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 703CD43E09; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 08:49:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from byron.schlemmer@realtime.co.uk) Received: from pan.ehsrealtime.com ([213.52.146.196]) by clientmail.ehsrealtime.com with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17PPuP-0005yt-01; Tue, 02 Jul 2002 16:49:41 +0100 Received: from byrons (helo=localhost) by pan.ehsrealtime.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 17PPuP-0000zg-00; Tue, 02 Jul 2002 16:49:41 +0100 Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 16:49:41 +0100 (BST) From: Byron Schlemmer To: FreeBSD-Hackers Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: AMI MegaRAID + Reboot issues Message-ID: <20020702155421.C3475-100000@pan.ehsbrann.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I've posted on this before, and I've received no reply. I'm cross-posting just in case it was missed before (I am desperate for help) and to ask for further advice. Basically we have a number of FreeBSD servers, running 4.5-RELEASE and 4.6-RELEASE, that use AMI MegaRaid 500 controllers. These boxes refuse to reboot when sent a reboot or shutdown -r. They simply close all processes and show : amr0: flushing cache...done Rebooting... At this point the numlock key is locked, and Ctrl + Alt + Deleting does nothing. The exact dmesg shows: amr0: mem 0xffff0000-0xffffffff irq 11 at device 11.0 on pci0 amr0: Firmware E161, BIOS 3.13, 32MB RAM This is the same controller in both boxes that is giving us this particular problem. Has anybody experienced and managed to solve this problem. Not being able to remotely reboot our servers is not a good thing. Are there any other recommended AMI controllers? What I find odd is this controller is specifically mentioned in both the Hardware Notes and amr(4). -byron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message