From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 6 06:18:15 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 384DA16A4CF; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 06:18:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from twonetom18.sge.net (twonetom18.sge.net [152.91.2.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D831143D31; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 06:18:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from carl@xena.IPAustralia.gov.au) Received: from twonetvs10.sge.net (twonetvs-om [152.91.2.17]) by twonetom18.sge.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C912FAA3B; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:18:10 +1000 (EST) Received: from twonetvs10.sge.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CDF8152F4; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:18:10 +1000 (EST) Received: from twonetim3.sge.net (twonetim-vs.sge.net [152.91.2.9]) by twonetvs10.sge.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29DAA152D6; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:18:10 +1000 (EST) Received: from guinness.lyn.gwy (unknown [152.91.9.242]) by twonetim3.sge.net (Postfix) with SMTP id F2FDBA9C3; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:18:08 +1000 (EST) Received: from vmail.aipo.gov.au (mail-in.ipa.lyn.gwy [192.168.254.253]) by guinness.lyn.gwy with ESMTP id j366I9nt015529; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:18:09 +1000 (EST) Received: from xena.aipo.gov.au (xena.aipo.gov.au [10.0.100.52]) by vmail.aipo.gov.au (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j366I9oR007141; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:18:09 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from carl@xena.IPAustralia.gov.au) Received: from [10.0.100.18] (newton.aipo.gov.au [10.0.100.18]) by xena.aipo.gov.au (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j366I56W063398; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:18:06 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from carl@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au) Message-ID: <42537F1D.3010209@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au> Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 16:18:05 +1000 From: Carl Makin User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050314) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <42383942.2000200@inoc.net> <42536BAB.6070205@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au> In-Reply-To: <42536BAB.6070205@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.48 on 10.0.100.191 cc: mjacob@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell PowerEdge 1855 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 06:18:15 -0000 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.