I've been having problems getting a 4.7-release SMP kernel to work properly on compaq 1850Rs w/smart array controllers (firmware 1.4 rev a). The generic (non-SMP) kernel boots a logical drive on the same controller w/no problem. When I enable SMP, recompile and boot, everything seems to work fine (finds processors, no errors in bootup) except that the kernel hangs when trying to mount the drive:
Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle Mounting root from ufs:/dev/idad0s1a I've tried this on two identitical compaq 1850Rs w/the same result. I've upgraded the BIOS on each machine, set the OS type to unixware 7, disabling IDE support both in the kernel and the BIOS... all producing the same result. I've found people w/similiar problems on list archives,etc but all of them were using the old smart array driver from freebsd3.4 and previous. The only recent similiar report I can find is this bug report for freebsd-4.4: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=31035 which provides almost the exact same error w/ similiar hardware (proliant 1600 w/smart array 221). this was submitted over a year ago. Anyway I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas of other things to try, or if there is a patch in current that I should be testing, or someone can tell me what debugging steps I can perform to move this problem along... any help would be appreciated. Thanks! -j To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
