Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:30:36 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Ian FREISLICH <ianf@clue.co.za> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LSI megaraid SATA 150-6 Message-ID: <4909548C.6040900@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <E1KvQMf-0006zu-RG@clue.co.za> References: <4908C496.4090609@samsco.org> <490864A3.4020801@samsco.org> <E1Kv8Bs-0004Wq-Fh@clue.co.za> <E1KvGQx-0005lG-54@clue.co.za> <E1KvQMf-0006zu-RG@clue.co.za>
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Ian FREISLICH wrote: > Scott Long wrote: >> Ian FREISLICH wrote: >>> 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? >>> >> Limits the driver to only use 32-bit addresses, and bounces >> (copies) anything above that down to the lower 32bits of the >> address space. Can you send me the output of 'pciconf -lv'? > > Scott, I thought I was clear in the original email, but I see now > that I wasn't. I haven't tried this card on current owing to the > difficulty of having to potentially downgrade and I was wanting > to find out if migrating this system to current would help. I'm > mostly satisfied with this solution as long as it doesn't point to > a driver bug. Of course, in that case I'm happy to take the pain > in the interests of helping getting the driver fixed. > I don't really care if you're using 8-CURRENT or 7-STABLE, the driver source is nearly the same in both. The problem exists in both, and the workaround is the same in both. However, I was looking to collect the PCI identification information for this 150-6 card so I could hopefully teach the driver to automatically handle this card specially. Thank you for providing the information. Scott
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