Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 16:18:05 +1000 From: Carl Makin <carl@xena.IPAustralia.gov.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: mjacob@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell PowerEdge 1855 Message-ID: <42537F1D.3010209@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au> In-Reply-To: <42536BAB.6070205@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au> References: <42383942.2000200@inoc.net> <42536BAB.6070205@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au>
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Afternoon! Just had more success with the Dell 1855. I split the disks into two individual drives visible to the OS and am now getting much better results. Bonnie and iozone transfer rates to and from a single drive of 50 to 60MB/s. This obviously just confirms the previous emails regarding this particular card (LSILogic 1030 Ultra4 Adapter) and the mpt driver. I've CC'd Matt Jacob on this, Matt any ideas? I also managed to get the CD rom drive working for the install. The sequence is this; . boot system with cd . unplug usb cdrom drive when "waiting for 15 seconds" appears . plug in the usb drive once sysinstall has started . switch to the second virtual screen (alt-F2) and wait (approx 2 minutes) until "cd0" appears . switch back to sysinstall (alt-F1) and go to the "options" screen and reprobe the hardware . install as normal The boot sequence will hang if the USB drive is attached at boot. There was something in freebsd-stable about a month ago about booting hanging if an ipod shuffle was attached. This is showing exactly the same symptoms. Otherwise the machine is running well. Carl.
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