From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 10 19:48:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAB4F16A40F for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 19:48:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25EF543D62 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 19:48:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GicMo-0007ms-VE for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:48:47 +0100 Received: from 83-131-164-192.adsl.net.t-com.hr ([83.131.164.192]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:48:46 +0100 Received: from ivoras by 83-131-164-192.adsl.net.t-com.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:48:46 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:48:36 +0100 Lines: 30 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 83-131-164-192.adsl.net.t-com.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) Sender: news Subject: Cruel and unusual problems with Proliant ML350 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 19:48:59 -0000 The machine in question has a 2-core Xeon, 2GB RAM and a new ciss-compatible controller, for which I appologise for not remembering the exact model but it's "200-something" with three attached 7.2k RPM SATA drives (so it's probably SAS-compatible) in RAID5, and 128 MB cache with BBU. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.2-beta3, and though all hardware is correctly detected, there are some curious problems: - The least problem: drive access is incredibly slow, but since this is a brand new machine and BIOS complains that the BBU is not filled to capacity and the controller is doing some calibration, it doesn't seem serious for now. On one burst I managed to get ~~110 MB/s reads from dd on raw device which is enough. - The less serious problem: It looks like a whole bunch of built-in devices is routed to irq 29: bce, ciss, ohci and ehci. I notice last three are giant locked, which doesn't look good, especially since this should be a loaded web server. I'll get a chance to open it after weekend, but I want to hear advice - does someone have experience with resolving such conflicts on proliants? - The showstopper: Sysinstall completes (though slowly), but on reboot the loader doesn't go further than the "F1 prompt" :( This is very curious, since when booting from install CD the loader shows it recognizes the CD drive and drives A: and C:, so BIOS seems to be ok. If I understand the loader correctly, after the "F1 prompt" phase, the loader should transfer control to the boot block of the first slice? I'll get a chance to work on it some more after weekend (after BBU is charged, hopefully), but this last issue looks like there might be a bug in sysinstall so I'm complaining early. The problems listed appear both on i386 and amd64 install images.