From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Sep 3 18:19:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-177-115.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.177.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1383237B50B for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2000 18:19:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA01957; Sun, 3 Sep 2000 18:34:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200009040134.SAA01957@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Brandon DeYoung" Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems installing 4.1 on 3ware RAID 5200 & 6200 In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 03 Sep 2000 17:18:53 CDT." <00f601c015f4$f3dfae20$4702a8c0@schoolpeople.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 18:34:22 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Hello all, > ...I must be doing something wrong. > I've been trying to get a new FreeBSD 4.1 (Release) system up using the > 3ware 5200 ATA RAID controller for the past few days. In short the install > exists after "Extracting manpages into / directory" with the following > error: This appears to be a bad interaction between the driver and the controller; I'm still working on it, but in the meantime you can do one of two things: 1) When the 3ware BIOS is running the 'profiling' phase, reboot the machine. This *may* result in slightly lower performance. 2) Let the FreeBSD installer start but do nothing until all the drives are idle. This may take a long time. It appears that the array enters an "initialisation" phase if profiling is allowed to complete, and while this phase is active, the driver can upset the controller. Regards, -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message