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From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To: Lawrence Farr <freebsd-stable@epcdirect.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Promise TX4300 boot problems
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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.

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