Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:24:12 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: Lawrence Farr <freebsd-stable@epcdirect.co.uk> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, =?iso-8859-1?Q?'S=F8ren_Schmidt'?= <sos@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Promise TX4300 boot problems Message-ID: <20051115152334.S33844@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <008001c5e9da$5ca2e990$c806a8c0@lfarr> References: <008001c5e9da$5ca2e990$c806a8c0@lfarr>
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On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Lawrence Farr wrote: > I've stuck a Promise TX4300 controller in to replace > the marvell onboard SATA that I can't boot off on a > Supermicro server. If I set 2 discs up as Raid 0 > or Raid 1 it's fine, But 4 discs as Raid 0+1 is detected, > installs without any problems, but hangs at the boot > loader with elf32_loadimage: read failed. I'm guesssing > the boot loader thinks it's a mirror, not a stripe and > fails to read past the first stripe on the disk? If this is the case then its a bug in the controller firmware; loader is just doing BIOS I/O calls. Check for a firmware update for your controller. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
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