Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:36:13 +0100 From: Hendrik Hasenbein <hhasenbe@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: Jacky Jack <jackyjack@hotmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Promise TX2300 Message-ID: <43CCE4BD.80905@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> In-Reply-To: <200601171412.25229.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <BAY24-F894B3B8D849CA01DDD29AB61A0@phx.gbl> <200601171412.25229.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Tuesday 17 January 2006 13:32, Jacky Jack wrote: > >>Booting off of the 6.0-RELEASE-i386-bootonly or disc1 with a Promise TX2300 >>card installed causes my box to reboot at the bootloader. Once the card is >>pulled out I can boot off of either ISO's. >> >>Is there any known issues with the TX2300 card? > > > I've had problems with Promise FT100/TX2 controllers with those symptons. Also > I have seen the loader spin dumping register info until you press the reset > switch. I got a Promise 300TX2plus (no RAID) and have the same problems. The onboard SIL 3112 also triggers reboots. For some strange reason the behaviour is a little different after a cold start. After a cold start it reboots after the kernel got loaded and not while trying to load the kernel. That's the behaviour after the first reboot. > I found it was only a problem if an array was defined (hah, only..), it seemed > to only happen on some BIOSen - I had no trouble with older K7 Epox > motherboards but P4 ones and AMD64 Epox boards exhibited it. Problem board is a nforce2 asus board. > Unfortunately the only work around I have is to install on one disk using the > motherboard controller then mirror onto the other after connecting it to the > RAID. Obviously this only works if you want a mirror and is a PITA. Think of one drive and no-floppy and you need to reinstall the bootloader. > I am not sure how to properly fix it though, or even whos fault it is > (FreeBSD, mobo maker, or Promise) - in the P4 case I found that the BIOS > would freeze solid when you entered the menu if an array was defined on the > RAID card :( Older install CDs boot if they emulate a floppy. Hendrik -- Ahhh there's only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't...
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