From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Apr 3 6:37:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D47D37B400; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 06:37:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA10734; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 09:37:16 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g33EakE96080; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 09:36:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <15531.4990.536630.145584@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 09:36:46 -0500 (EST) To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D8ystein_Andreassen?= Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, msmith@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with MyLex KZPAC PCI RAID controller In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org =D8ystein Andreassen writes: >=20 > Hello, >=20 > I have tried to install FreeBSD 4.5 (Release(?)) on a Digital Server= 5000 > Model 5303 6533A. > It has a MyLex KZPAC PCI RAID Controller. I manage to boot the CD an= d > everything seems fine until the file copying starts. > When the copying is around 23% of / it comes to a complete halt and = i get > ALOT of errors like > "mlx0: I/O error - attempt to write beyond end of drive" > I've read the mailinglists and found that this was a problem in 4.3 = (i386) > (mailinglist "current", may 2001). > So I tried to put the MyLex controller in an i386 machine. I still h= ad the > disks in the alpha. This worked fine! >=20 > I guess my question is: Why isn't the alpha driver updated while the= i386 > driver is? (I really hope that someone just forgot and it's VERY sim= ple to > fix!:) Its the same driver on all platforms. I'm a little out of my depth here, as I've never even seen a mylex card. One WAG I have is that perhaps the alpha is storing the size of the array someplace in the hosts firmware & when you moved the card to a PC, that information was cleared? Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message