Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 22:37:36 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: clinth <clinth@dakcs.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amr(4) in 6.1-RELEASE-p3 ignores my tape drive Message-ID: <44D96690.1030308@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <042001c6bb33$5bf1b050$4ee01bac@clinth>
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clinth wrote: >>Hi All, > > >>This morning I upgraded a Dell PowerEdge 2850 from 6.0-RELEASE to >>6.1-RELEASE and found that amr(4) no longer detects my Seagate DAT via >>sa(4). > > >>The system has an embedded Dell PERC 4e/Di with two channels. Channel 0 >>contains two disks in RAID 1 and works fine. Channel 1 has only the DAT >>at ID 6 but it is no longer detected. Possibly related to this, ses0 >>also shows up with the 6.0 kernel but not under 6.1. > > >>The diffs for amr show that a ton of (excellent) work has been done >>between 6.0 and 6.1 so I have no idea where to even begin looking for a >>solution. Any help is most appreciated. > > >>Regards, >>RJ > > > I am having the same issues as RJ. Has there been a resloution to this > issue as I'm unable to find one? > The system is the same as above with a new install of 6.1-RELEASE-p3. Any > help is very appreciated. > > Clint > It's my fault. I was hoping that the SCSI-passthrough mis-feature would not be missed, but I forgot that Dell was making systems that explicitely encourage it. Fixing the driver is non-trivial, but I'll see what I can do before 6.2. Until then, you should be able to transplant the 6.0 sources into your 6.1 trees and rebuild. Scotthome | help
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