From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 6 16:07:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 422C616A420 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 16:07:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fcash@ocis.net) Received: from smtp.sd73.bc.ca (mailtest.sd73.bc.ca [142.24.13.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1DF543D49 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 16:07:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fcash@ocis.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id B64188A00C6 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 08:11:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.sd73.bc.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.sd73.bc.ca [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 11435-01-52 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 08:11:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.10] (s10.sbo [192.168.0.10]) by smtp.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F5E08A006D for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 08:11:11 -0800 (PST) From: Freddie Cash To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 08:07:31 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060303133844.451cb4f7.kgunders@teamcool.net> <200603031343.10334.fcash@ocis.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200603060807.32455.fcash@ocis.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at sd73.bc.ca Subject: Re: major pita w/LSI Tyan TA26 combo X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:07:40 -0000 On Sunday 05 March 2006 08:48 am, Vivek Khera wrote: > On Mar 3, 2006, at 4:43 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: > > The official word from LSI Support is: they do not support any RAID > > controllers connected to riser cards, no matter what the OS. Go > > that via > > e-mail from one of their support techs and one of their RAID > > engineers. > Interesting... They never said that to me. I have an issue with an > external Dell Powervault array that always reports failure of > whatever is in position 0 once the array is active. It will format > it, etc. without failure. If I swap the channels on the 320-2X card, > the error stays with position 0 on the array. If I drop the channel > down to U160 from U320, no errors. This leads me to believe that the > backplane of the array box is not up to spec for U320. Is that connected to a riser card that is connected to the motherboard? We only have problems when the MegaRAID card is plugged into a riser card. When it's plugged directly into the motherboard, it runs perfectly. -- Freddie Cash fcash@ocis.net