Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 11:27:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: Patrick Hurrelmann <outi@bytephobia.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems installing FreeBSD with 3ware 9500S-4LP Message-ID: <20040619112104.D48022@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20040618204900.6657e62b@duality.bytephobia.de> References: <20040618131219.75ea8f90@duality.bytephobia.de> <20040618201253.044a6666@duality.bytephobia.de> <20040618204900.6657e62b@duality.bytephobia.de>
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well you replied to yourself and made this a mess, I'll see what I can do to trim it down :) On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Patrick Hurrelmann wrote: > > > Whats the RAID config? > > > > I forgot to include that. Shame on me. > > 4x 120GB, 7200rpm, 8mb chache WesternDigital Disks are configured as one Raid 5 array. > > Disk details: WDC WD1200JB-75GBB0 So 1 4-disk raid5. ok. > > > > 5.1-Release > > > > w ACPI: Loading twa.ko (binary distribution of 3ware.com for 5.2) in sysinstall failes. > > > > w/o ACPI: same as w ACPI. > > > > > > I wouldn't expect this to work. > > > > I tried that, as download page on 3ware says (FreeBSD 5.1, but i > > excpect that this is an error) Yeah, I don't think thats right; Vinod said its been qualified on 5.2. The kernel ABI's changed since 5.1. > > > > 5.2-Release > > > > w ACPI: loaded twa.ko in sysinstall. > > > > install went ok, on next reboot it just halts after BTX-Loader. > > > > I cannot load twa.ko in loader. > > > > w/o ACPI: same as w ACPI. > > > > > > Hm, sounds like the loader is getting corrupted. Try booting the install > > > CD, breaking out of the loader countdown and run these commands > > > (untested): > > > > > > unload > > > set rootdev=disk1s1a (or whatever disk you put freebsd on) > > > boot /boot/kernel/kernel > > > > No, i think i didn't make it clearly enough. It halt on BTX-Loader. > > I don't to the "real" loader. I don't see what modules it loads, etc. > > I'll reboot an post the exact message i see. I was asking if you can boot off a different media here. Since you can boot off the CDROM okay, I wanted you to use the CD's loader to boot the on-disk system. If that worked then the loader binary on disk was probably corrupted. > > twa.ko from 3ware dowload-site included new firmware. The controller > > has been updated automatically. > > > twa firmware is 2.02.00.011 > twa bios is 2.02.01.037 Ah, they split it into runtime firmware and BIOS. I was curious if there was a new BIOS available, but it appears its a part of the driver package now. Thats annoying; if you can't boot due to a BIOS problem, you can't boot to upload a new BIOS. Nice chicken-&-egg problem. > > I have second ide-disk with a some day old current. I can mount the partitions created during install. All seems to be ok. > > > > I tried a install with twa.ko of current, but it panics with an > > page-fault everytime i load the module through sysinstall. Sounds like the module and kernel are mismatched here. I'd suggest contacting 3ware at this point, since there is obviously a bug in the 3ware BIOS. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
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