From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri Jan 24 13:42:35 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B791037B401 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:42:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from astro.umn.edu (hal.astro.umn.edu [128.101.221.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2918943F5F for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:42:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from carde@astro.umn.edu) Received: (qmail 27665 invoked from network); 24 Jan 2003 21:42:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (128.101.221.39) by 0 with QMQP; 24 Jan 2003 21:42:32 -0000 Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 15:42:32 -0600 From: kelley eicher To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: mylex (mly) controller problems Message-ID: <20030124214232.GA14944@astro.umn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable have a couple mylex extremeraid 2000 cards in a system that i'd like to swi= tch from linux to freebsd and use as a file server. couple problems come with that desire though. it seem that the driver has a lot of problems communicating with the contro= llers at boot. the only thing i've had work so far is to have 1 disk array = defined over 1 channel. it boots somewhat reasonably like this. if i add mo= re disk arrays to other channels on the same controller or add another cont= roller with more disk arrays attached to it, the system takes a very very _= v_e_r_y_ long time to boot... if i have the patience to wait 20 minutes or = and hour or so. during those long minutes while waiting for the machine to come up, i watch= the drives in the enclosures and i can see detection and syncing activity = there by the leds behavior. the point at which the boot process hangs up is immediately after the phras= e "waiting XX seconds for scsi devices to settle". there are no error messa= ges reported to the console as the mly driver attempts to bring up the disk= arrays and controllers. i have seen some posts from a while back about unconfigured drivers causing= behavior similar to this. those posts however, mention log messages that i= have never seen from the mly driver. i also have all of my drives configur= ed in disk arrays. any idears? -kelley --=20 --OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+MbNIF3O5KT+A1xQRAi4RAKC2bivnqvqOAfrPcN6UQbUatV5BZACfQ52o 2XnZj4xZ4ImLHhkC3dgvW/E= =90ZQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message