Just a happy user report. Hopefully, this is of use for those
searching the archives.
As it seems, the LSI Logic MegaRAID SATA 150-4 seems another name for
the LSI/Symbios 523 listed in the HCL. For completeness, I attached a
dmesg output below.
The card is currently sitting in a 32bit slot and appears to work
fine. Performance on 3.6 (i386) is fine, although -current provided
better throughput for me. Given the work done on ami(4) (see the CVS
logs), this is hardly surprising.
The only problem I encountered was easily solved. At first the card
was much slower in transfers (both under 3.6 and -current) than a
regular drive (by a factor 20). As it turned out, write caching was
not enabled on all of the physical drives in the array due to a
firmware bug.
Although checking (and correcting) the write cache settings on the
drives solved this problem, it is also possible to upgrade the
firmware on the card (presently 713N). It seems there are still cards
on the market with older firmwares in them as I bought my cards a few
weeks ago (having 713G in them).
As soon as I can get my hands on an Opterons, I'll try out amd64 with
it (in a 64bit slot).
Cheers,
Rogier
OpenBSD 3.6 (GENERIC) #59: Fri Sep 17 12:32:57 MDT 2004
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 2.40 GHz
cpu0:
FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,PNI,MWAIT,CNXT-ID
real mem = 534548480 (522020K)
avail mem = 480858112 (469588K)
using 4278 buffers containing 26828800 bytes (26200K) of memory
mainbus0 (root)
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(00) BIOS, date 09/29/04, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xf0010
apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2
apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown
pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0x10000
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xf3d00/224 (12 entries)
pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:31:0 ("Intel 82801EB/ER LPC" rev 0x00)
pcibios0: PCI bus #1 is the last bus
bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0xa200! 0xca800/0x2200
cpu0 at mainbus0
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82865G/PE/P CPU-I/0-1" rev 0x02
vga1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Intel 82865G Video" rev 0x02: aperture
at 0xf0000000, size 0x8000000
wsdisplay0 at vga1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 "Intel 82801EB/ER USB" rev 0x02: irq 11
usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0
uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 1 "Intel 82801EB/ER USB" rev 0x02: irq 5
usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1 at usb1
uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 2 "Intel 82801EB/ER USB" rev 0x02: irq 10
usb2 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0
uhub2 at usb2
uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci3 at pci0 dev 29 function 3 "Intel 82801EB/ER USB" rev 0x02: irq 11
usb3 at uhci3: USB revision 1.0
uhub3 at usb3
uhub3: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub3: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
ehci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 7 "Intel 82801EB/ER USB" rev 0x02: irq 9
ehci0: EHCI version 1.0
ehci0: companion controllers, 2 ports each: uhci0 uhci1 uhci2 uhci3
usb4 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
uhub4 at usb4
uhub4: Intel EHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub4: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered
ppb0 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 "Intel 82801BA AGP" rev 0xc2
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
ami0 at pci1 dev 1 function 0 "Symbios Logic MegaRAID" rev 0x01: irq
10 LSI 523/64b/lhc
ami0: FW 713N, BIOS vG119, 64MB RAM
ami0: 1 channels, 0 FC loops, 1 logical drives
scsibus0 at ami0: 40 targets
sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <AMI, Host drive #00, > SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd0: 455808MB, 58107 cyl, 255 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 933494784 sec total
hifn0 at pci1 dev 2 function 0 "Hifn 7955/7954" rev 0x00: LZS 3DES
ARC4 MD5 SHA1 RNG AES PK, 32KB dram, irq 3
fxp0 at pci1 dev 8 function 0 "Intel PRO/100 VE" rev 0x01: irq 11,
address 00:11:11:9d:0a:de
inphy0 at fxp0 phy 1: i82562ET 10/100 media interface, rev. 0
ichpcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel 82801EB/ER LPC" rev 0x02
pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 1 "Intel 82801EB/ER IDE" rev 0x02:
DMA, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to
compatibility
atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0
scsibus1 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets
cd0 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <PHILIPS, CDD3610 CD-R/RW, 3.01> SCSI0
5/cdrom removable
cd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 0, DMA mode 1
wd0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0: <QUANTUM FIREBALL ST3.2A>
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 3079MB, 6306048 sectors
wd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
pciide1 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 "Intel 82801EB SATA" rev 0x02: DMA,
channel 0 configured to native-PCI, channel 1 configured to native-PCI
pciide1: using irq 10 for native-PCI interrupt
wd1 at pciide1 channel 0 drive 0: <HDS722580VLSA80>
wd1: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 78533MB, 160836480 sectors
wd1(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5
"Intel 82801EB/ER SMBus" rev 0x02 at pci0 dev 31 function 3 not configured
isa0 at ichpcib0
isadma0 at isa0
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
sysbeep0 at pcppi0
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16
pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
biomask ff65 netmask ff6d ttymask ffef
pctr: user-level cycle counter enabled
dkcsum: sd0 matched BIOS disk 82
dkcsum: wd0 matched BIOS disk 80
dkcsum: wd1 matched BIOS disk 81
root on wd0a
rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302
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