From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Sep 6 17:31:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F87137B423 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 17:31:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite.sentex.ca [199.212.134.1]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e870VNq79217; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 20:31:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA12958; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 20:31:19 -0400 (EDT) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: bburke@mwci.net (Ben Burke) Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which RAID Controller to Buy Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 00:26:13 GMT Message-ID: <39b6dfdd.1295657587@mail.sentex.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 6 Sep 2000 12:57:58 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.hardware you wrote: >on pci2 >/kernel: amr0: firmware Uc77 bios 1.47 32MB memory >/kernel: amrd0: on amr0 >/kernel: amrd0: 34272MB (70189056 sectors) RAID 5 (optimal) It should work fine. You might try upgrading the BIOS, as that seems to be a fairly old revision IIRC. Be sure to download the firmware from Dell. Search for either megaraid or Perc in the driver section. The driver creator, msmith@freebsd.org might be able to help if the newer BIOS still gives you this problem. In the past, I was able to trip this bug by doing a dozen or so concurrent bonnie -s 100 -d /whever-ever-the-raid-mount-is & Try the new firmware, and good luck. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message