From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Sep 4 12:20:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-177-115.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.177.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C10037B424 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 12:20:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA05083; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 12:35:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200009041935.MAA05083@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Brandon S. DeYoung" Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems installing 4.1 on 3ware RAID 5200 & 6200 In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 04 Sep 2000 08:38:28 CDT." <005e01c01675$68d13660$9e0e1b18@austin.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 12:35:37 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Mike Smith wrote: > > > >1) When the 3ware BIOS is running the 'profiling' phase, reboot the > > machine. This *may* result in slightly lower performance. > >2) Let the FreeBSD installer start but do nothing until all the drives > > are idle. This may take a long time. It appears that the array > > enters an "initialisation" phase if profiling is allowed to complete, > > and while this phase is active, the driver can upset the controller. > > Thanks Mike, > Just so I'm clear here. > 1) When you say profiling, you're talking about the initial array set up > done after pushing Alt-3? And you're suggesting rebooting the machine before > it gets to 100%? > 2) Allow profiling to complete, but leave the installer on the first screen > ("skip kernel configuration.....") until drives are idle. Yes, on both counts. I'm not 100% certain of the second method, as it's only been reported to me as working, but I have verified the first method in the lab. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message