Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 15:42:01 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Adaptec / MegaRAID SCSI issues ? Message-ID: <3EBC1299.4060101@centtech.com>
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Ok, I'll get right to it.. The problem: FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE, and FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE both fail on boot when I have a (Dell PERC3/DC) AMI MegaRAID controller in the system with RAIDs defined and optimal, but 4.7-RELEASE does not. Here's more details: 4.7-REL (fresh install, no tweaks, no updates) begins the boot, shows the two raids (amrd0 and amrd1), including their sizes, etc. After the 15 second "drive settling", the machine will continue to boot off the scsi hard drive plugged into the internal controller card (AIC-7892 card), and all is well. 4.8-REL and 5.0-REL (fresh install, blabla) begins to boot, shows the two raids like before, and never get's much past the 15 second settling. I'll clarify - a normal boot shows nothing after that point, however, doing a "verbose" boot (boot -v) shows that it gets past the creation of the amrd0/1 devices, and goes to the adaptec scsi controller configuration and hangs in that stage. It never comes out of the hang, and doesn't respond to ctrl-alt-del, but I still have keyboard interrupt.. I'm upgrading a 4.7-REL install to -stable now, so I'm uncertain if that will work or fail - I'm just curious if anyone else has seen this, fixed it, or never heard of it before.. How can I help get this fixed? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Attitudes are contagious, is yours worth catching? ------------------------------------------------------------------
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