Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 08:14:40 -0700 From: "Long, Scott" <Scott_Long@btc.adaptec.com> To: "'Mike Smith'" <msmith@freebsd.org>, Joe Parks <pleaseworky@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: RE: error in 4.4 release notes regarding PERC 2/QC ? Message-ID: <CEDF5AA24668244F8D529010E2955A940A7549@btcexc01.btc.adaptec.com>
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I'll review the documentation today to make sure that it is accurate. Yes, the PERC2/QC is supported under the aac driver, and the aac driver is part of GENERIC and exists on the boot floppies. Mike probably guessed right about your problem; the driver does not work with version 1.x of the firmware. You can find out what version you have by checking the card's BIOS banner at boot time. In any case, I would recommend upgrading to the latest firmware from Dell and trying again. Scott > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Smith [mailto:msmith@freebsd.org] > Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 12:57 AM > To: Joe Parks > Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: error in 4.4 release notes regarding PERC 2/QC ? > > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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