Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 11:47:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: "J. Martin Petersen" <jmp.lists@alvorlig.dk> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Peter_Losher@isc.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6 (or 7) on a HP DL140 G3 SATA Message-ID: <20061209114555.A2273@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <457A9DA0.1020601@alvorlig.dk> References: <4578E1AD.3090505@isc.org> <457A9DA0.1020601@alvorlig.dk>
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On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, J. Martin Petersen wrote: >> You can run the live CD or install FreeBSD >> (6.2-RC1 or 7-CURRENT) onto the HD's, but when you boot from the disks, >> the boot loader barfs: >> >> -=- >> int=0000000d err=0000001a efl=00030287 eip=0000291d >> eax=1400000a ebx=00000b3e ecx=00000000 edx=0000c900 >> esi=00000d1c edi=00000001 ebp=00000206 esp=00000200 >> cs=c900 ds=9a00 es=9a00 fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=9a00 >> cs:eip=cc 68 32 06 ff 34 e8 db-fc 83 c4 04 89 46 fe 5f >> 5e c9 c3 55 8b ec 1e 33-c0 8e d8 a0 75 04 3c 00 >> ss:esp=1c 0d 02 00 00 00 34 02-d8 45 1c 0d 00 00 00 14 >> 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00-1c 0d 02 00 00 00 00 00 >> BTX halted >> -=- >> >> Here is the relevant BIOS output from the controller: I have two HP DL145 G3's, and I had identical crashes in the loader when using the amd64 loader on an older BIOS revision. Upgrading the BIOS made the problem go away. Upgrading proved to be a bit of a pain because the boxes don't have CDROM or floppy drives, and the HP firmware updater download is rather weird, but once it was updated (using a USB floppy drive) all was happiness. Oddly, the i386 loader had no problem at all... Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge >> >> -=- >> LSI Logic Corp. MPT SAS BIOS >> MPTBIOS-6.06.08.00 (2006.05.16) >> Copyright 2000-2006 LSI Logic Corp. >> >> >> SLOT ID LUN VENDOR PRODUCT REVISION CAPACITY >> ---- --- --- -------- ---------------- ---------- ---------- >> 3 LSILogic SAS1068-IR 1.10.01.00 >> -=- >> >> Has anyone gotten one of these to run FreeBSD from the HD's successfully? > > Yes; we got similar results until we upgraded the system BIOS and the > controller firmware (both are available somewhere on hp.com). > > We're now having a different problem; once -CURRENT (or 6.2-RC1) is installed > and running, the disk performance is abysmal. I/O-wise it is maxing out > around 6MB/sec, which seems far from impressive. > > We have tried both with and without RAID configured through the controller > (i.e., with RAID-1 and with just two seperate disks), and results are > identical. > > There does not seem to be any spurious interrupts, and there is no load on > the system when doing disk I/O. This is for -CURRENT as of yesterday evening > (after the latest commits to dev/mpt). > > Martin > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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