From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 24 8:32:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from morpheus.skynet.be (morpheus.skynet.be [195.238.2.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F47437C068 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 08:32:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by morpheus.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D1E0CC40 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 17:32:08 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 17:28:45 +0100 To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Multiple Adaptec 2940U2W controllers? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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! -- These are my opinions and should not be taken as official Skynet policy _________________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/726.93.11 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message