Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 14:42:30 -1000 From: Richard Puga <puga@mauibuilt.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: ips.ko load sequence for IBM ServerRaid 5i Message-ID: <3F57DBF6.A96CABE3@mauibuilt.com>
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I do have the ips driver working with the IBM ServerRaid 5i. However it only works if I boot of an IDE drive and load the driver after the kernel is loaded. What I believe the problem to be is the fact that this "Raid" card is just an add in card to a modified PCI slot that makes the on board LSI dual channel controller into a RAID, and something in the kernel is loading (not the LSI driver its been taken out) which makes these 2 separate devices act as one through the PCI bus and is the reason it can only be loaded after booting. I believe a quick and dirty fix for this may be to load the ips.ko module after the kernel has booted and before init mounts /. Is there a way to do this via something in /boot/loader (the standard way in loader.conf loads it too soon) or perhaps a way to compile isp into the kernel in a way that it would be probed at a later time or in a different sequence? Thanks again in advance Richard Puga puga@mauibuilt.com
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