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Date:      Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:02:33 -0800
From:      Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org>
To:        Jan Mikkelsen <janm@transactionware.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>, "jpaetzel@ixsystems.com" <jpaetzel@ixsystems.com>, Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
Subject:   Re: known problems with 8.x and HP DL16 G5 server?
Message-ID:  <8957A163-6A31-4666-AA7F-C05ED6487808@tcbug.org>
In-Reply-To: <80227576-89AE-4831-8565-BED2323D2FFD@transactionware.com>
References:  <4F343F2D.4040307@freebsd.org> <20120209215600.GA1793@icarus.home.lan> <4F345E84.8080307@freebsd.org> <20120210062411.GA9664@icarus.home.lan> <4F36273E.9010805@freebsd.org> <80227576-89AE-4831-8565-BED2323D2FFD@transactionware.com>

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On Feb 11, 2012, at 4:55 AM, Jan Mikkelsen <janm@transactionware.com> wrote:=


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> On 11/02/2012, at 7:30 PM, Julian Elischer wrote:
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>> turns out that the HP machine has an HP branded (and with different firmw=
are) raid controller
>> that is not quite the same as the standard one. FreeBSD can't handle it a=
nd dies.
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>> Josh Paetzel may remember the exact type.. I forget..
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> I have some memory of HP DL160 servers with an embedded ciss(4) controller=
 taking a long time to boot. I recall a delay of multiple minutes. I don't r=
emember what I did to work around it.
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> Does it really stop, or is it just being slow?
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> Regards,
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> Jan.
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It really does stop. It was left overnight once. It has an old mpt (rebrande=
d lsi 1068) with HP firmware on it. The controller takes way too long to pro=
be but eventually it passes that and then hangs where Julian describes.=20

If you poke around on the web, there's posts where this machine hangs on boo=
t on 6.2, 7.0 and 8.0. Removing the HBA allows it to boot normally.=20

My next troubleshooting step would be replacing the HBA with one with stock L=
SI firmware.=20

Thanks,

Josh Paetzel=



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