From owner-freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 6 16:47:03 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86E3816A4DE; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 16:47:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ps@freebsd.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C79A43D46; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 16:47:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ps@freebsd.org) Received: from [70.198.82.44] (44.sub-70-198-82.myvzw.com [70.198.82.44]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 781101A4D87; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 09:47:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <44FEFB83.3010102@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 09:46:59 -0700 From: Paul Saab User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5.0.2 (Macintosh/20060324) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bucky Jordan References: <78ED28FACE63744386D68D8A9D1CF5D4104C43@MAIL.corp.lumeta.com> In-Reply-To: <78ED28FACE63744386D68D8A9D1CF5D4104C43@MAIL.corp.lumeta.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jeffrey Williams , dmartin@euitt.upm.es, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.org, bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386/100160: [mfid] Perc5i: additional symptomatic info on virtual disk detection issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-i386@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: I386-specific issues for FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 16:47:03 -0000 revision 1.11 date: 2006/06/20 22:41:44; author: ps; state: Exp; lines: +77 -202 Instead of using scsi probes to do device discovery, use the firmware commands to grab the device listing. This resolves issues using multiple volumes, where each volume was actually internally pointing to target 0. Bucky Jordan wrote: >> In the meantime if anybody else is aware of another work around of fix >> for this, I appreciate hearing about it. >> > > I've got almost the same setup- 6.1 amd64 RELEASE, a 2950 with 6 drives > attached to the Perc5/I SAS Raid controller. Right now I've got the > whole thing configured as a RAID5x6 disks and it seems to be working > fine. > > I was able to also create smaller RAID sets (for example, a 4 disk > RAID10) without an issue, and I did not have to remove extra drives. > > Someone (on -hardware I think) mentioned that the problem recognizing > multiple virtual volumes is addressed in 6-stable, but I have not had > the chance to try it out. I will post the results if/when I do. > > - Bucky > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >