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Date:      Sun, 17 Sep 2006 20:32:12 -0500
From:      eculp@bafirst.com
To:        Matthew Jacob <lydianconcepts@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: LSI 1030 mpt doesn't work if I build a new kernel
Message-ID:  <20060917203212.bor5t6oi28sss0w4@mail.bafirst.com>
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Quoting Matthew Jacob <lydianconcepts@gmail.com>:

>>
>> Is the LSI-MPT BIOS disabled on your machine?  I found that I had to
>> start enabling it, otherwise the driver does something at boot that
>> makes the MPT chip stop responding.  It didn't use to be that way.
>
>
> *shrug*
>
> For LSI-MPT BIOS that comes from a motherboard rather than being on a
> card, you *have* to have it enabled for it to function at all as the
> microcode is loaded by the BIOS. Claiming that it  "didn't use to be
> that way" seems a bit odd. But feel free to file a bug at
> http://www.feral.com/bugzilla.
>
Initially and for several months it worked fine then one day it just 
wouldn't boot a new kernel but it boots a kernel from June just fine.  
Would that not be "used to" ;)  Thanks,

ed





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