From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 21 20:56:21 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A080D16A58E for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:56:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spartak@aif.ru) Received: from mail.aif.ru (mail.aif.ru [85.21.212.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 197EA43D66 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:55:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from spartak@aif.ru) Received: from spartak.intranet ([192.168.71.10]) by mail.aif.ru with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.61 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Gmcf3-000E4a-9Q for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:56:09 +0300 Message-ID: <456367E8.2010001@aif.ru> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:56:08 +0300 From: Spartak Radchenko User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: 45382F43.6020509@FreeBSD.org <45632B06.5090900@activnetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <45632B06.5090900@activnetworks.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -3.8 (---) X-Spam-Report: -1.8 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] 0.6 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list Subject: Re: bug on BTX X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:56:21 -0000 Remy Nonnenmacher wrote: > Same problem on Primergy (Fujitsu-Siemens) RX200-S3 server. BTX halts > while reading from an LSI1068 disk via BIOS. Does this means that > nearly all LSI106x based machines will soon be unbootable as BIOSes > got updated ?. (As a short list: Sun X[24][16]00 servers, Intel SR25XX > with SAS, Some IBM xSeries, etc...). There is a workaround for Intel SR25XX with SAS backplane. It can be configured in BIOS to use the Intel Embedded Server RAID II technology. FreeBSD doesn't support it and still detects physical disks attached to mpt(4), but with this option turned on FreeBSD could be successfully booted. Probably turning it on installs the different int13 handler. I turned it on and configured JBOD. It has certain drawbacks, however. You should be careful and never use the last sector on the hard drive as it's used for metadata by the Intel Emdedded RAID. You can't use gmirror on the physical disks, for example. -- Spartak Radchenko SVR1-RIPE