Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 23:56:37 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Joe Parks" <pleaseworky@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: error in 4.4 release notes regarding PERC 2/QC ? Message-ID: <200112290756.fBT7ubF20404@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 29 Dec 2001 00:42:19 MST." <F45ka8WK0MQvUNz8yOu00010d28@hotmail.com>
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> Hello, > > I was looking through the FreeBSD release notes for 4.4-RELEASE and saw: > > Dell PERC 2/QC > > However, on this page, http://people.freebsd.org/~msmith/RAID/ > > I see that, although the PERC 3/QC is listed, the '2/QC' is not. Further, > I noticed that in the current notes for 5.0 there is no '2/QC' either. You need to read more closely. 8) > Therefore, I am curious as to whether the 4.4-RELEASE notes contain a > typo, or if there really is support for the PERC 2/QC. My experience > today leads me to believe that there is not. kern/MFSroot floppy set > boots the kernel _up to_ the point that it identifies aac0 as a PERC 2/QC, > and then hard locks the machine. Problem is reproducible. You'll need to talk to Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>, who now maintains the aac driver. It ought to work; it certainly did before I handed the driver over to Scott, and we regularly hear from people running them. Make very sure that you are running the most recent firmware; older firmware on these cards was... touchy. -- ... 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] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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