From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Apr 29 21:30:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (adsl-63-193-112-57.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.112.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4418A37BA52 for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2000 21:30:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA00706; Sat, 29 Apr 2000 21:38:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200004300438.VAA00706@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Shawn Barnhart" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How good is AMI MegaRAID support? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 29 Apr 2000 19:04:47 CDT." <001a01bfb237$b2b62490$0102a8c0@k6> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 21:38:30 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Smith" > > | If that's what they say, I'd be inclined to believe them. Since I've > not > | encountered any fatal problems with the 2.x firmware, I can't suggest > | that upgrading would actually win you very much. > > I'm not even sure the HPDA flavor of cards is supported by FreeBSD to > begin with. I hooked up my HPDA DAC960PL to a 4.0-STABLE box (cvsup'd > last night) today and during bootup I get: > > mlx0: port 0xdc80-0xdcff irq 11 at > device 13.0 on pci0 > mlx0: couldn't allocate mailbox window > device_probe_and_attach: mlx0 attach returned 6 What firmware revision are you running? This looks like your card isn't supporting a memory-mapped region for the mailbox window - I should check for this I guess. I'm fairly sure that 2.42 or later will work. -- \\ 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message