Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 09:46:00 -0400 From: Chris Pepper <pepper@reppep.com> To: Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@ohoyer.de> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel SCRZCR Controller on Tyan K7XPro Motherboard ... Message-ID: <p06200705bd2abb451832@[129.85.219.160]> In-Reply-To: <20040724003645.V18285@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> References: <20040723112232.D909@ganymede.hub.org> <20040724003645.V18285@gaff.hhhr.ision.net>
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At 12:39 AM +0200 2004/07/24, Olaf Hoyer wrote:
>On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
>>
>> According to the Tyan web site "Adaptec and Intel Zero-Channel RAID ready"
>> ... has anyone successfully gotten the above MB working with the above
>> controller?
>>
>> We just built a new system, everything appears to work great until we plug
>> in the ZCR, at which point, as the techie describes: "When I boot the
>> server up with that raid card in the proper slot, it just powers itself
>> off immediately."
>>
>> Now, I'm pretty much ready to say to hell with it and go with s/w RAID,
>> but I want to make sure we haven't overlooked something obvious here first
>> ...
>
>Hmm, a quick shot: Is it the same zero-Channel card that Intel also
>sells for the Sun Fire 65x series?
>
>Then its basically a ICP-Vortex design, and I remember, that on Intel
>Mainboards you need to plug it in a special slot, because it only works
>in that slot properly.
>
>Got some time ago a 65x for a short time to test, and that card worked
>properly with 4.9R and 5.2.1R.
For reference, here's a snip from "pciconf -l" on a SF V65x
running RH Enterprise Linux 3 with the Intel ZCR card (bought from
Sun):
04:08.0 RAID bus controller: Intel Corp. RAID Controller
Subsystem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 01af
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 48
Memory at fa000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
Expansion ROM at fe9f8000 [disabled] [size=32K]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
Chris
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