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Date:      Thu, 24 Feb 2000 17:28:45 +0100
From:      Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Multiple Adaptec 2940U2W controllers?
Message-ID:  <v04220810b4db0b72bd12@[195.238.1.121]>
In-Reply-To: <v0422080db4db01ea81fc@[195.238.1.121]>
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At 4:47 PM +0100 2000/2/24, Brad Knowles wrote:

>  	Blargh.  It does appear to hurt.

	After having received positive feedback on these reports from 
several people, I will continue posting updates.

	Thanks, folks.  I can really use the support right now.

>                                      I'm trying the two 2940U2W
>  controllers on the primary PCI bus with the on-board AIC-7890
>  controller hard-wired to the secondary PCI bus.

	Bugger.  That doesn't work, either.

	I guess I should have paid more attention to the clue 
silk-screened on the motherboard near the first slot in the secondary 
PCI bus that says "RAID Upgradeable PCI slot", and another clue 
silk-screened elsewhere close by that said something like "Insert 
NICs into primary PCI bus only".

	Sigh....  I guess we get to buy a couple of 3950U2Ws, and maybe 
hold on to these 2940U2Ws and see if they can ever be useful in 
another project sometime.


	It looks like the PCI bridge chip is a real issue with this 
particular hardware configuration, and so far as I can tell, using 
SMP doesn't seem to make a difference.


	After confirming that everything is working okay again, we get to 
go back to reconfiguring the RAID array, doing horizontal striping 
across the logical units, seeing what happens when I add softupdates, 
etc....

	I'll post results here when I've got 'em.



	Thanks everyone!

-- 
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