Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 14:59:29 -0700 From: Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com> To: kelley eicher <carde@astro.umn.edu> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mylex (mly) controller problems Message-ID: <3E31B741.3080400@btc.adaptec.com> In-Reply-To: <20030124214232.GA14944@astro.umn.edu> References: <20030124214232.GA14944@astro.umn.edu>
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kelley eicher wrote: > have a couple mylex extremeraid 2000 cards in a system that i'd like to > switch 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 > controllers 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 more disk arrays to other channels on the same controller > or add another controller 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 > phrase "waiting XX seconds for scsi devices to settle". there are no > error messages 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 configured in disk arrays. > > any idears? > > -kelley > > Is this with FreeBSD 5.0 or 4.7? I'm aware of the 5.0 problem with the driver going to lunch and not completing commands, but I haven't seen it take a long time to probe like you describe. Anyways, I'm currently looking at the first problem as I type, and hopefully I'll have some sort of a fix soon. Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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