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Date:      Wed, 07 Feb 2007 18:30:41 -0200
From:      Felippe de Meirelles Motta <lippe@freebsdbrasil.com.br>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>,  freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dell PowerEdge 840 in FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <45CA36F1.8060600@freebsdbrasil.com.br>
In-Reply-To: <200702051628.02501.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <45C745BF.3080600@freebsdbrasil.com.br> <200702051628.02501.jhb@freebsd.org>

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> On Monday 05 February 2007 09:57, Felippe de Meirelles Motta wrote:
>> Hi people,
>>
>> Somebody already got problems with PERC 5/i controller, stopping during 
>> the boot ?
>>
>> Reading the last message, i dont known the possible problem, look:
>>
>> mfi0: 587 (223981812s/0x0001/-1) - VD 00/0 progress 2% in 48s: 
>> Background Initialization progress on VD 00/0 is 2.03%(48s)
>> mfi0:588 (223981820s/0x0000/0) - Battery temperature is normal
>> mfi0: 589 (223981820s/0x0000/0) - Current capacity of the battery is 
>> above hold
>> mfid0: <MFI Logical Disk> on mfi0
>> mfid0: 278784MB (578949632 sectors) RAID volume '0' is optimal
>>
>> My hardware informations are:
>>
>> Dell Poweredge 840
>> BIOS A01
>> Raid Controller LSI LOGIC Corporation
>> PERC 5/i version 5.0.2-0003
>> 3 HDs in RAID 5
>>
>> I tested with FreeBSD 6.1 and 6.2, but, no success!
>>
>> I read about a possible bug in FreeBSD 6.1 with multiple volumes, but i 
>> don't find any notice that confirmed this, not even any correction/fix.
> 
> It was fixed in 6.2, but you only have 1 volume.  You might have a different 
> problem rather than an mfi(4) problem.  You can try disabling SMP as a 
> workaround for now to see if it doesn't hang at boot.

Thanks John B., but without success! :(

I made others 4 attempts, also without success.

1) Disabling ACPI - Also stopped in boot;
2) Boot in Safe Mode - Boot completed successfully, but reboot of 15 in 
15 minutes;
3) Boot with Loader Prompt and sets:

set hw.ata.ata_dma=0
set hw.ata.atapi_dma=0
set hw.ata.wc=0
set hw.eisa_slots=0
set hint.kbdmux.0.disabled=1
boot -v

Note: The last message is: GEOM: new disk mfid0.

4) I tried to also remake the volume;

More suggestions ?

> 
>> Thanks! :)


-- 

Atenciosamente,
Felippe de Meirelles Motta
FreeBSD Brasil LTDA.
http://www.freebsdbrasil.com.br



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