From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 26 13:46:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5C0216A4CE for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 13:46:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from www.reppep.com (www.reppep.com [66.92.104.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 802DD43D46 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 13:46:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pepper@reppep.com) Received: from [129.85.219.160] (salt.rockefeller.edu [129.85.219.160]) by www.reppep.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58CD9FDC4; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 09:46:25 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20040724003645.V18285@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> References: <20040723112232.D909@ganymede.hub.org> <20040724003645.V18285@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 09:46:00 -0400 To: Olaf Hoyer From: Chris Pepper Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel SCRZCR Controller on Tyan K7XPro Motherboard ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 13:46:33 -0000 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 -- Chris Pepper: Rockefeller University: