From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 5 4:24: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 718AA37B400 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 04:24:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clientmail.ehsrealtime.com (eris.ehsrealtime.com [213.52.146.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEFAD43E31 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 04:24:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from byron.schlemmer@realtime.co.uk) Received: from pan.ehsrealtime.com ([213.52.146.196]) by clientmail.ehsrealtime.com with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17QRBY-000JY9-01; Fri, 05 Jul 2002 12:23:36 +0100 Received: from byrons (helo=localhost) by pan.ehsrealtime.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 17QRBU-0004Ed-00; Fri, 05 Jul 2002 12:23:32 +0100 Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 12:23:32 +0100 (BST) From: Byron Schlemmer To: thrawn@linux.nu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMI MegaRAID + Reboot issues In-Reply-To: <20020702204628.C67665@thrawn.birch.se> Message-ID: <20020705121601.M16254-100000@pan.ehsbrann.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 thrawn@linux.nu wrote: > Hi, > > Have you tryed to downgrade/upgrade de firmwire on the AMI cards? > > Just a thought. Thanks to all those who responded. I think I've located the problem. I upgraded firmware on the AMI controller to the latest version. No change. I then tried to update the firmware on the motherboard. I managed to kill the board at this point. My supplier (Digital Networks UK whom I highly recommend) re-sent me a new motherboard. Same BIOS version as the old one before the upgrade. I decided not to flash the firmware this time. Instead I had a look around the BIOS settings and set the 1st Boot device to "PCI Raid Controller" and ever since I'm able to reboot the server without fail. I even tried a different RAID controller of the same make and model, and still no problems. The motherboard is a Gigabyte 6VTXDR. -byron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message