From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri Jan 24 14: 0: 2 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 D2D2A37B401 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 14:00:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from magic.adaptec.com (magic.adaptec.com [208.236.45.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EBC643EB2 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 14:00:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scott_long@btc.adaptec.com) Received: from redfish.adaptec.com (redfish.adaptec.com [162.62.50.11]) by magic.adaptec.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h0OLxti29772; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:59:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from btc.btc.adaptec.com (btc.btc.adaptec.com [10.100.0.52]) by redfish.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA27794; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:59:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from btc.adaptec.com ([10.100.0.141]) by btc.btc.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA23098; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 14:59:45 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <3E31B741.3080400@btc.adaptec.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 14:59:29 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021105 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kelley eicher Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mylex (mly) controller problems References: <20030124214232.GA14944@astro.umn.edu> In-Reply-To: <20030124214232.GA14944@astro.umn.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 kelley eicher wrote: > have a couple mylex extremeraid 2000 cards in a system that i'd like to > switch 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 > controllers 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 more disk arrays to other channels on the same controller > or add another controller 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 > phrase "waiting XX seconds for scsi devices to settle". there are no > error messages 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 configured in disk arrays. > > any idears? > > -kelley > > Is this with FreeBSD 5.0 or 4.7? I'm aware of the 5.0 problem with the driver going to lunch and not completing commands, but I haven't seen it take a long time to probe like you describe. Anyways, I'm currently looking at the first problem as I type, and hopefully I'll have some sort of a fix soon. Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message