Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 20:02:05 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MegaRAID 428 vs 466 and a way to wedge the controller Message-ID: <4.2.2.20000217195946.04682de8@mail.sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <200002180050.QAA03318@mass.cdrom.com> References: <Your message of "Thu, 17 Feb 2000 19:30:01 EST." <4.2.2.20000217192443.045cedf0@mail.sentex.net>
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At 04:50 PM 2/17/2000 -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
> > At 04:19 PM 2/17/2000 -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
> > >Hmm. I flashed my PERC 2 up to the latest AMI firmware, and with about a
> > >dozen bonnie processes running it took about 30 seconds for the controller
> > >to lock up completely (I had to power-cycle it to get it to come back).
> >
> > Is this a purely amr box ? I had been testing it out only on 1 partition
> > mounted as /mnt. Although all access to the AMI is hosed, access to my
> IDE
> > is without issue.
>
>No, same setup. I have a terminator with a bunch of pretty LEDs on it on
>the back of the disk box, and the SCSI bus was most surely wedged solid.
>I've backed off to 4 tags per drive from their "advanced" tag detection
>(these are 9GB cheetahs) and it's not dying on me now, so I'm fairly
>certain it's either firmware or firmware:drive interaction. 8(
Hmmm... I forgot to check what the tag settings was on the controller. But
I am using 9GIG quantum Atlas IIIs. But on mine, I dont get a complete
lock up. Just cant talk to the RAID drives.
The latest Dell firmware was working OK; I'm now using the AMI GH6D
>firmware and as above with tags backed off it was OK for a bit - the box
>just spontaneously rebooted though, so I'm not so sure it's happy. 8(
Yikes. It hasnt done that to me.
---Mike
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