Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 14:19:48 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Crash before BTX Message-ID: <200007262119.OAA39639@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Jul 2000 13:54:30 PDT." <200007262054.NAA48603@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
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> > > The specs of the servers are as following: > > > Intel G440GX+ mainboard > > > Intel PRO 100+ Server NIC x2 > > > SRCU21 RAID Controller > > > > Well, it is dying in your RAID adapter's BIOS, since cs=0xca80. I'll have > > to sit down and figure out what instruction it is dying on though. I'll > > try to get to this later on today. > > Ok. Your RAID adapter is doing very bad things: > > 00000000 260F0114 lgdt [es:si] > 00000004 0F20C0 mov eax,cr0 > 00000007 0CFF or al,0xff > 00000009 0F22C0 mov cr0,eax > 0000000C EB00 jmp short 0xe > 0000000E B81010 mov ax,0x1010 > > Basically, it is trying to enter protected mode in its BIOS. However, > the BTX is already in protected mode, which is why this fails. Your > adapter is _supposed_ to be using BIOS calls to do whatever it is trying > to do, _not_ doing this on its own. You probably need to bug the vendor > of your RAID adapter to see if they have a workaround for this, or if they > are even aware of the problem, unless Mike has a better idea. Mike? I've got a SRCU21 waiting for me in the office, but with my car off the road I'm not going to get it until next week. The SRCU21 is not supported at this time - it's a pure I2O device and we don't have device support for these guys yet. I'm going to try to do someting with it, but I need a *decent* technical contact at Intel to make this happen right. I'll have to smack them for this too. 8) I would pull it out and use a Mylex eXtremeRAID 1100 (if you need a production solution Right Now), or if you have a week or two to burn this guy in and want to help me out, get a Mylex AcceleRAID 170 (this is a nice controller, boys and girls) and help me sort out the kinks in the 'mly' driver. -- ... 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-questions" in the body of the message
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