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 Adaptec

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/294x

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 the PCI bus as

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 card to

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 to the

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 load (20

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) )

2000-02-22 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 sure it's

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: AMI MegaRAID mem 0xe900-0xe93f irq 11 at device 12.1 on

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. I don't think