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Date:      Fri, 24 Jan 2003 15:42:32 -0600
From:      kelley eicher <carde@astro.umn.edu>
To:        freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   mylex (mly) controller problems
Message-ID:  <20030124214232.GA14944@astro.umn.edu>

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have a couple mylex extremeraid 2000 cards in a system that i'd like to swi=
tch from linux to freebsd and use as a file server.

couple problems come with that desire though.

it seem that the driver has a lot of problems communicating with the contro=
llers at boot. the only thing i've had work so far is to have 1 disk array =
defined over 1 channel. it boots somewhat reasonably like this. if i add mo=
re disk arrays to other channels on the same controller or add another cont=
roller with more disk arrays attached to it, the system takes a very very _=
v_e_r_y_ long time to boot... if i have the patience to wait 20 minutes or =
and hour or so.

during those long minutes while waiting for the machine to come up, i watch=
 the drives in the enclosures and i can see detection and syncing activity =
there by the leds behavior.

the point at which the boot process hangs up is immediately after the phras=
e "waiting XX seconds for scsi devices to settle". there are no error messa=
ges reported to the console as the mly driver attempts to bring up the disk=
 arrays and controllers.

i have seen some posts from a while back about unconfigured drivers causing=
 behavior similar to this. those posts however, mention log messages that i=
 have never seen from the mly driver. i also have all of my drives configur=
ed in disk arrays.

any idears?

-kelley


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