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Date:      Mon, 17 Jan 2000 16:23:01 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Dave Rynne <dave@esat.net>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problems with Mylex eXtremeRAID 1100 (DAC 1164) 
Message-ID:  <200001180023.QAA02122@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Jan 2000 17:21:06 GMT." <E12AFpy-0003uQ-00@lucidity.esat.net> 

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> Hi...
> 
> Am having probs with a Mylex eXtremeRAID 1100 (DAC1164) under 
> both 3.4-RELEASE & 4.0-CURRENT. Card gets detected fine when no 
> disks are attached but fails to detect card properly when disks 
> are attached (and takes a few mins to even boot). Have also 
> tried Linux & NT on the same box and both install fine so it 
> doesn't appear to be a hardware problem (termination, etc..).

It looks like the controller's being left in a state that the driver 
doesn't like; commands are completing but return garbage.

> Relevant chunks from bootverbose (4.0-20000112-CURRENT):
> 
> Without disks attached:
> mlx0: <Mylex version 5 RAID interface> port 0xdc80-0xdcff mem 
> 0xec000000-0xeffff
> fff,0xf7fffc00-0xf7fffc7f irq 14 at device 8.0 on pci3
> mlx0: DAC1164PVX, 2 channels, firmware 5.07-0-79, 64MB RAM
...
> With disks attached:
> mlx0: <Mylex version 5 RAID interface> port 0xdc80-0xdcff mem 
> 0xec000000-0xeffff
> fff,0xf7fffc00-0xf7fffc7f irq 14 at device 8.0 on pci3
> mlx0: DAC model 0x80, 0 channel, firmware 0.00--0, 0MB RAM

The ENQUIRY2 command has completed OK, but the data it has returned is 
complete nonsense.

> Have been seeing this behaviour with various 4.0 snapshots since
> late Novemeber.

Was there ever a time that it worked for you?

> Box also has both ahc and amr controllers and is booting off the
> ahc.
> 
> Any ideas ?

Not yet, but I'm hamstrung right now in that -current is hopelessly 
unstable, and won't even boot SMP on my test system, so I'm unable to do 
any work on these drivers.  As soon as I can, I will, and I'll try to 
reproduce your problem.

-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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