Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 00:26:40 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BIOS and PERC 2/SC (was Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466) ) Message-ID: <200002240826.AAA00518@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 Feb 2000 19:10:42 EST." <4.2.2.20000223190830.03b74b88@mail.sentex.net>
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> > > >Hmm. I did some testing, and I can lock both the G6HC and G6HD firmware > > > >up within a few minutes. The Dell 3.00 firmware remains stable under the > > > >same load (20 simultaneous 'bonnie -s 100's). I'm fairly sure it's a > > > >firmware lockup - the SCSI bus is hung and usually the PCI bus as well. > > > > > > I am going to test the card in another older MB to see if its some strange > > > interaction. What MB chipset are you using to test with ? > > > >I've been testing most recently with the Intel 450NX and AMD 751. > > OK, on the PERC2/SC and LINUX with the firmware from Dell (3.00), it pukes > with Redhat LINUX. I am able to talk to the card, fdisk and newfs it, but > it crashes hard when you write to the partition. I am going to try and > reflash the card to the latest AMI BIOS and see what happens. How about with FreeBSD and the Dell firmware? Let's keep the number of variables down. 8) -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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