From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 17 12:36:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EB1916A422 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:36:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hhasenbe@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de) Received: from mailout.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (mailout.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE [129.70.136.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6784743D45 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:36:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hhasenbe@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de) Received: from techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (australien.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE [129.70.131.117]) by momotombo.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (8.12.11/8.12.11/TechFak/2005/05/30/sjaenick) with ESMTP id k0HCaE1Q004907; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:36:19 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <43CCE4BD.80905@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:36:13 +0100 From: Hendrik Hasenbein User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040218 X-Accept-Language: de, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Daniel O'Connor" References: <200601171412.25229.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200601171412.25229.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jacky Jack , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Promise TX2300 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:36:27 -0000 Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Tuesday 17 January 2006 13:32, Jacky Jack wrote: > >>Booting off of the 6.0-RELEASE-i386-bootonly or disc1 with a Promise TX2300 >>card installed causes my box to reboot at the bootloader. Once the card is >>pulled out I can boot off of either ISO's. >> >>Is there any known issues with the TX2300 card? > > > I've had problems with Promise FT100/TX2 controllers with those symptons. Also > I have seen the loader spin dumping register info until you press the reset > switch. I got a Promise 300TX2plus (no RAID) and have the same problems. The onboard SIL 3112 also triggers reboots. For some strange reason the behaviour is a little different after a cold start. After a cold start it reboots after the kernel got loaded and not while trying to load the kernel. That's the behaviour after the first reboot. > I found it was only a problem if an array was defined (hah, only..), it seemed > to only happen on some BIOSen - I had no trouble with older K7 Epox > motherboards but P4 ones and AMD64 Epox boards exhibited it. Problem board is a nforce2 asus board. > Unfortunately the only work around I have is to install on one disk using the > motherboard controller then mirror onto the other after connecting it to the > RAID. Obviously this only works if you want a mirror and is a PITA. Think of one drive and no-floppy and you need to reinstall the bootloader. > I am not sure how to properly fix it though, or even whos fault it is > (FreeBSD, mobo maker, or Promise) - in the P4 case I found that the BIOS > would freeze solid when you entered the menu if an array was defined on the > RAID card :( Older install CDs boot if they emulate a floppy. Hendrik -- Ahhh there's only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't...