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To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
From: Ian FREISLICH <ianf@clue.co.za>
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Subject: Re: LSI megaraid SATA 150-6 
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Scott Long wrote:
> Ian Freislich wrote:
> > But I'm unable to boot into multi-user off the disk.  The kernel
> > boots and then I get reports of UFS corruption (truncated inodes
> > and missing blocks etc) and it can't find /libexec/ld-elf.so.1.
> > 
> > I'm tempted to just say that the card is junk and to give up.
> > Am I correct in my analysis?
> > 
> 
> Try setting the following from the loader at boot:
> 
> hw.amr.force_sg32=1

Ok, that fixed it.  What exactly does this do?

Ian

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Ian Freislich