Re: BIOS and PERC 2/SC (was Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466) )

2000-02-24 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:22 PM 2/24/2000 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > megaraid: v107 (December 22, 1999) > > megaraid: found 0x8086:0x1960:idx 0:bus 0:slot 10:func 1 > > scsi1 : Found a MegaRAID controller at 0xd0002000, IRQ: 12 > > megaraid: [GH6D:1.43] detected 1 logical drives > > scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294

Re: BIOS and PERC 2/SC (was Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466) )

2000-02-24 Thread Mike Smith
> megaraid: v107 (December 22, 1999) > megaraid: found 0x8086:0x1960:idx 0:bus 0:slot 10:func 1 > scsi1 : Found a MegaRAID controller at 0xd0002000, IRQ: 12 > megaraid: [GH6D:1.43] detected 1 logical drives > scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.25/3.2.4 > > scsi1

Re: BIOS and PERC 2/SC (was Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466) )

2000-02-24 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:26 AM 2/24/00 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >> OK, on the PERC2/SC and LINUX with the firmware from Dell (3.00), it pukes >> with Redhat LINUX. I am able to talk to the card, fdisk and newfs it, but >> it crashes hard when you write to the partition. I am going to try and >> reflash the card

Re: BIOS and PERC 2/SC (was Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466) )

2000-02-24 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:26 AM 2/24/2000 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > OK, on the PERC2/SC and LINUX with the firmware from Dell (3.00), it pukes > > with Redhat LINUX. I am able to talk to the card, fdisk and newfs it, but > > it crashes hard when you write to the partition. I am going to try and > > reflash the c

Re: BIOS and PERC 2/SC (was Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466) )

2000-02-24 Thread Mike Smith
> > > >Hmm. I did some testing, and I can lock both the G6HC and G6HD firmware > > > >up within a few minutes. The Dell 3.00 firmware remains stable under the > > > >same load (20 simultaneous 'bonnie -s 100's). I'm fairly sure it's a > > > >firmware lockup - the SCSI bus is hung and usually th

Re: BIOS and PERC 2/SC (was Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466) )

2000-02-23 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 09:19 PM 2/22/2000 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > On 18 Feb 2000 17:39:19 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.current you wrote: > > > > > >Hmm. I did some testing, and I can lock both the G6HC and G6HD firmware > > >up within a few minutes. The Dell 3.00 firmware remains stable under the > > >same

Re: BIOS and PERC 2/SC (was Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466) )

2000-02-22 Thread Mike Smith
> On 18 Feb 2000 17:39:19 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.current you wrote: > > > >Hmm. I did some testing, and I can lock both the G6HC and G6HD firmware > >up within a few minutes. The Dell 3.00 firmware remains stable under the > >same load (20 simultaneous 'bonnie -s 100's). I'm fairly su

Re: BIOS and PERC 2/SC (was Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466) )

2000-02-22 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 18 Feb 2000 17:39:19 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.current you wrote: > >Hmm. I did some testing, and I can lock both the G6HC and G6HD firmware >up within a few minutes. The Dell 3.00 firmware remains stable under the >same load (20 simultaneous 'bonnie -s 100's). I'm fairly sure it's a

Re: BIOS and PERC 2/SC (was Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466) )

2000-02-18 Thread Mike Smith
> OK, I took a chance and flashed the card's BIOS to the latest from the AMI > site I had been suspecting BIOS, as the readme.txt mentioned problems > with newer motherboards. Lo and Behold, it seems to have done the trick > > amr0: mem 0xe900-0xe93f irq 11 at device 12.1 on pci0 >

BIOS and PERC 2/SC (was Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466) )

2000-02-17 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 07:04 PM 2/16/00 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >> At 05:15 PM 2/16/2000 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >> > > Hi, >> > > I have been trying to get a PERC 2 (aka MegaRAID 466) working with >> > > Current. The box worked fine with the 428, but seems to barf with only the >> > > controller swapped. >>

Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466)

2000-02-16 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 07:04 PM 2/16/2000 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > newmail# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/amrd0 count=16 > > 16+0 records in > > 16+0 records out > > 8192 bytes transferred in 0.006427 secs (1274613 bytes/sec) > > newmail# disklabel -Brw amrd0 auto > > newmail# disklabel -e amrd0 > > disklabel: ioctl DI

Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466)

2000-02-16 Thread Mike Smith
> At 05:15 PM 2/16/2000 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I have been trying to get a PERC 2 (aka MegaRAID 466) working with > > > Current. The box worked fine with the 428, but seems to barf with only the > > > controller swapped. > > > >I don't think the two controllers share on-di

Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466)

2000-02-16 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 05:15 PM 2/16/2000 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > Hi, > > I have been trying to get a PERC 2 (aka MegaRAID 466) working with > > Current. The box worked fine with the 428, but seems to barf with only the > > controller swapped. > >I don't think the two controllers share on-disk configurati

Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466)

2000-02-16 Thread Mike Smith
> Hi, > I have been trying to get a PERC 2 (aka MegaRAID 466) working with > Current. The box worked fine with the 428, but seems to barf with only the > controller swapped. I don't think the two controllers share on-disk configuration formats; you'll probably need to re-initialise the ar

Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466)

2000-02-16 Thread Mike Tancsa
Hi, I have been trying to get a PERC 2 (aka MegaRAID 466) working with Current. The box worked fine with the 428, but seems to barf with only the controller swapped. newmail# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ramrd0 bs=1k count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 1024 bytes transferred in 0.000446 se