Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 10:10:59 -0600 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Nils Berzins <nberch@db.lv> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with FreeBSD on Poweredge 6300 Message-ID: <404DEC93.9060909@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <BC73B25E.1E2D5%nberch@db.lv> References: <BC73B25E.1E2D5%nberch@db.lv>
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Nils Berzins wrote:
> Hi !
>
> Our mother company donated us some used Dells (Poweredge 6300). Recently we
> started to move away from Redhat in favor of FreeBSD, so naturally I tried
> to install the FreeBSD on them, but the istallation process dies at:
>
>
>>Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
>>amrd0: <LSILogic MegaRAID logical drive> on amr0
>>amrd0: 25706 MB (52641792 sectors) RAID5 (optional)
>>GEOM: create disk amrd0 db=0xc6fa528c
>>md0: Preloading image </boot/mfsroot> 442360 bytes at 0xc09dff74
>
>
> Doing verbose boot reveals a little more information:
>
>
>>(probe50:ahc2:0:5:0): error 22
>>(probe50:ahc2:0:5:0): Unretryable error
>>(ahc2:A:5:0): Sending SDTR period c, offset f
>>(ahc2:A:5:0): Received SDTR period c, offset f
>> Filtered to period c, offset f
>>ahc2: target 5 synchronous at 20.0MHz, offset = 0xf
>>(ahc2:A:5:0): Sending SDTR period c, offset f
>>(ahc2:A:5:0): Received SDTR period c, offset f
>> Filtered to period c, offset f
>
>
> I also tried booting Redhat 9.0 and it works fine. Is there any hope for me
> getting this work, or should I just relax and go back to Linux ? :-(
I have this same issue - Jung-uk Kim (jkim (at) niksun.com) sent me a
patch, that made my life better (below). Something with the PERC
controllers. The only problem for me, was that I have a root partition
on the PERC controller, so I can't boot up to patch it. Anyway, there
are ways to get the job done, but in the end, after sending emails to
various people with no response, I put RedFat on it. I wish I could
have gone with FreeBSD, but I can't have a server that takes me 3 hours
to get rebuilt. Here's the patch he sent, maybe it will help you.
--- src/sys/dev/amr/amr.c.old Wed Jan 15 17:03:05 2003
+++ src/sys/dev/amr/amr.c Fri May 9 18:00:11 2003
@@ -237,12 +237,14 @@
debug(2, "controller query complete");
+#ifdef AMR_SCSI_PASSTHROUGH
/*
* Attach our 'real' SCSI channels to CAM.
*/
if (amr_cam_attach(sc))
return(ENXIO);
debug(2, "CAM attach done");
+#endif
/*
* Create the control device.
@@ -339,8 +341,10 @@
{
struct amr_command_cluster *acc;
+#ifdef AMR_SCSI_PASSTHROUGH
/* detach from CAM */
amr_cam_detach(sc);
+#endif
/* cancel status timeout */
untimeout(amr_periodic, sc, sc->amr_timeout);
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