Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 15:57:57 -0000 From: "Lawrence Farr" <freebsd-stable@epcdirect.co.uk> To: "'Doug White'" <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, =?iso-8859-1?Q?'S=F8ren_Schmidt'?= <sos@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: Promise TX4300 boot problems Message-ID: <013301c5eac6$83219ed0$0200a8c0@lfarr> In-Reply-To: <20051115152334.S33844@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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> > > I've stuck a Promise TX4300 controller in to replace > > the marvell onboard SATA that I can't boot off on a > > Supermicro server. If I set 2 discs up as Raid 0 > > or Raid 1 it's fine, But 4 discs as Raid 0+1 is detected, > > installs without any problems, but hangs at the boot > > loader with elf32_loadimage: read failed. I'm guesssing > > the boot loader thinks it's a mirror, not a stripe and > > fails to read past the first stripe on the disk? > > If this is the case then its a bug in the controller > firmware; loader is > just doing BIOS I/O calls. Check for a firmware update for your > controller. It's the latest version of the firmware. I'll go back to using a mirror.
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