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To: "Shawn Barnhart" <swb@grasslake.net>
Cc: "Sean O'Connell" <sean@stat.Duke.EDU>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Dell PERC 3 support? 
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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:30:33 -0800
From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
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The MFC of the driver brought back an spl bug that was probably hidden in 
-current by the way that interrupts currently work there.  Paul Saab at 
Yahoo pointed this out, and I fixed it probably just after you tried this.

The symptoms would probably have been similar to what you're describing 
here.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sean O'Connell" <sean@stat.Duke.EDU>
> 
> > The PERC 3 cards use the aac driver which was only very recently
> > MFC'd (it should work with a recent snapshot).  The card should
> > work and you can download from Dell a Linux command line tool to
> > do some work with the controller (you do need to build a custom
> > kernel to use this that does not have aac statically defined and
> > load the kld out of /boot/loader.conf (aac_load="YES") to get the
> > linux ioctl support (it will not compile statically .. well, I
> > could not get it to compile statically :).
> 
> Have you gotten an aac card to work under STABLE?  I tried with the
> following procedure within a week of the MFC of the aac driver.  Card make
> was a HP Netraid 4M connected to a HP rackstorage/12 (6 disks, raid 5):
> 
> 1) build STABLE kernel on updated STABLE machine
> 2) grab 5.0 snapshot (4.2 snap had no aac support) install disk, do install
> with 4.2 CD
> 3) on boot, copy 4.2-STABLE kernel with aac support to new system
> 4) reboot with 4.2 stable kernel, cvsup, make buildworld, buildkernel,
> instal, etc.
> 5) reboot
> 6) filesystem refuses to mount, "operation timed out..."
> 
> During the cvsup operation the system would "pause" for 15-30 seconds for no
> apparent reason.  A console switch to a systat -vmstat screen shows the aac
> disk at 100%.  They'd stay at 100% and then the process would continue.  I
> got the same kind of results during buildworld and installworld.
> 
> My guess is that either my install process was too smart for my own good, or
> the driver didn't like my card.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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