> 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: <AMI MegaRAID> mem 0xe9000000-0xe93fffff irq 11 at device 12.1 on pci0
> amr0: firmware GH6D bios 1.43 32MB memory
> amrd0: <MegaRAID logical drive> on amr0
> amrd0: 17522MB (35885056 sectors) RAID 5 (optimal)
>
> As I mentioned, the card came as a Dell unit. I tried the latest BIOS from
> Dell, but that was a year old. The BIOS from megaraid.com 1.43, which is
> in there now *seems* to work so far.... At least I can now get a disklable
> on the drive and newfs the drive
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 the PCI bus as well.
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