On Wednesday 04 May 2005 20.41, Rogier Krieger wrote:
> 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,CFL
>USH,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
Yes.
LSI 150-4 works like a charm (OpenBSD 3.6 + driver cleanup patches from
CVS)... I have many of them. Both in 32 and 64 bit slots. Now I use it on
some OpenBSD 3.7 installations as well.
What can I say... I wont buy any adaptec cards ;-)
/Per-Olov
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