From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Oct 25 13:13:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from deepsky.com (vader.deepsky.com [209.167.109.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 341A014C45 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 13:13:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mrh@deepsky.com) Received: (qmail 22422 invoked by uid 558); 25 Oct 1999 20:13:38 -0000 Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 16:13:38 -0400 From: Michael Haba To: cucu Cc: Mike Smith , freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.3.0 support for Compaq SMART-2/P array controller Message-ID: <19991025161338.A22394@deepsky.com> References: <199910250640.XAA16626@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4us In-Reply-To: ; from cucu on Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 09:36:29AM -0500 X-Operating-System: Live free or die - UNIX Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Well the box has got an ATAPI CDROM and I remember somebody telling me that I can't have both devices with 'WD vector stealing mode' enabled. Also with having 'WD vector stealing mode' on, any access on the WD devices deadlocks the machine. Updating the firmware on the controller unfortunately didn't help either. You were talking about patches? Are there any urls for thies? Thanks, - Michael On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 09:36:29AM -0500, cucu wrote: > I am not sure if there is a major problem. Why are you not stealing WD > vectors? I boot from the array with no issues. > > You may want to apply patches from Jonathan (was posted couple weeks ago > in the news group). I am using proliant 1600R with Smart2/p without any > issues over 2 weeks with 3.3-STABLE. > You may upgrade your smart ROM > http://www.compaq.com/support/files/server/softpaqs/Rompaq/OPTROM254.html to > 4.16. I had lot of issues with ROM 4.06. NO I did not test the 4.16, thats > why I am using 3.08 firmware. > > Michael, I will be glad to donate an EISA Smart SCSI card permanently to the > project. Just let me know where. I may also loan Smart 2P or Smart 3200 each > for a month. > cuneyt > > Here is the kernel output: > ... > Probing for devices on PCI bus 2: > ida0: rev 0x03 int a irq 15 on pci2.0.0 > ida0: drvs=1 firm_rev=3.08 > ida0: unit 0 (id0): > id0: 8187MB (16768800 total sec), 2055 cyl, 255 head, 32 sec, bytes/sec 512 > ida: wdc vector stealing on (mode = always, boot major = 0) > ... > ida: port address (0xffffffff) out of range > ida0 not found > ... -- Michael Haba Nous étions tous en voyage quand un brouillard s'approche c'est la forêt des regrets amers des doutes sans rémissions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message