From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 9 08:11:46 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98FA016A4CE for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 08:11:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1847243D46 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 08:11:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from centtech.com (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i29GBgE8075049; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 10:11:42 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <404DEC93.9060909@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 10:10:59 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040205 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nils Berzins References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with FreeBSD on Poweredge 6300 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 16:11:46 -0000 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: on amr0 >>amrd0: 25706 MB (52641792 sectors) RAID5 (optional) >>GEOM: create disk amrd0 db=0xc6fa528c >>md0: Preloading image 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); -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. ------------------------------------------------------------------