Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 06:55:47 -0500 (CDT) From: Shawn Barnhart <swb@grasslake.net> To: Mark Powell <M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HPDA/DAC960PL errors Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005040645210.15499-100000@accord.grasslake.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10005041240340.23451-100000@plato.salford.ac.uk>
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On Thu, 4 May 2000, Mark Powell wrote: > My two-penneth. I've a DAC960PL D040-345 that originally had firmware > v2.35. I got the v2.73 PL firmware off the web and successfully flashed > the card. It still reports the "no mailbox" problem, with 4.0-S as of a > couple of days ago. This backs up your 960PL observation, but shows that > -345 can be flashed. It can be flashed -- I flashed my D040-345 card, too, even though it was an HP OEM card. Mylex is pretty oblique about flash OEM cards on their web site -- they should just say that you can do it, but OEM supplied tools may no longer work. What it can't get is the firmware flash upgrade from Mylex -- they send you two flash chips, one for each socket on your card. The 3.x and above firmware requires more space than a single chip can provide. You need a series -347 or newer card to use the upgrade. That's why I'd make the speculation that there must have been an architecture change from -347 and on that enables memory mapping. > I'm still confused as to the FBSD RAID solution of choice, as the Mylex > isn't working either. I take it if I got a brand new DAC960, it'd work > fine? You'd have to ask Mr. Smith, I guess. Shortly I'm going to have an AMI Megaraid avaialable to try in FreeBSD. It's been working well with Linux for about a year now, I'm presuming it'll work in FreeBSD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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