Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 23:45:39 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Jin Guojun (DSD staff) <jin@george.lbl.gov> Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is 5-year old Mylex DAC960 too old? Message-ID: <200008090645.XAA16580@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 08 Aug 2000 12:45:27 PDT." <200008081945.e78JjRT14931@portnoy.lbl.gov>
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> Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Wrote: > > > } > I have a couple of 5-year old Mylex DAC960 adapters. The BIOS sees them ha > > ving: > > > } > > > > } > Vendor ID = 1069 and the Device ID = 0200 > > > } > > > > } > But the 4.1-RELEASE cannot find it. > > > } > > > } This card might be an OEM version; can you check the BIOS/setup utilities/ > > > } stickers on the board etc.? > > > > I'd still like to know what this board actually is. Are there *any* > > identifying labels/marks on the board at all? > > It seems not having setup utilities. No BIOS information. Have you tried downloading the setup utilities from the Mylex website? Do they recognise the adapter? > The stickers on the back: > > one at the handle side -- > FCC ID: D5NDAC960PDU-3 Ok. It's a 3-channel ultra-wide controller; nice, worth having. > one at the connector side -- > W.O. APL90220-01 > D040378-0 > REV. F I don't know about this; it's a build sticker of some sort, it's possible that my contact at Mylex can tell me more about it. > On the front side, in the middle and on the top of the memory slot, there is > a green module labeled as > DAC960LB DB1 > MYLEX CORP This is a bypass connector for the battery-backup slot. Don't remove it - the controller won't work (properly) without it. You can still buy the BBUs, AFAIK. > There is no sign on for the BIOS. That would suggest that something is quite wrong. You should get at least the following: DAC 960 BIOS Version 3.xx - <date> Mylex Corporation <maybe some stuff about disks> DAC960PDU Firmware version 3.xx DAC960 Memory = XX Mbytes (<type>) The BIOS on these older cards is not very good about PCI bridges. If you're not on PCI bus 0, you might want to try moving the card. Try in a machine that only has one PCI bus, if possible. > > How long does it hang here? If the controller BIOS hasn't run (eg. there > > is no BIOS, or the BIOS is not x86 code) then this process can take > > several minutes. > > mlx0: <Mylex version 3 RAID interface> port 0xd000-0xd07f mem 0xe3000000-0xe300007f irq 10 at device 9.0 on pci0 > mlx0: controller initialisation in progress... > > It deadly hangs. No softboot, no key stroke accepted. Have to do hardware reset. > I have waited for at least 12 minutes :-( That would suggest that the card might actually be dead. Silly question - is there any RAM in the socket on the board? Is it RAM that came with the card, or some that you just dug up? These boards are a little picky about memory, and the CPU may not boot with the wrong memory. Have you tried both boards? I'll ask my contacts at Mylex and see if I can find out what the cards are; for about $70 or so you can get a set of flash PROMs for these cards that will update them to the most recent firmware - if yours have been destroyed (eg. by a bad flash update) then that may be the only way out. Regards, -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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