Hello, This seems related to a problem I had with a 7.1-PRERELEASE (I have since upgraded to 7.1-RELEASE, but haven't not tested if the problem is still there).
If I compiled the kernel with only the amr driver, it would not see my raid volume. If I enabled a separate scsi driver (I think it was some LSI Logic scsi driver) in addition to amr, the amr driver would work fine. I wish I could give some exact details (like the name of the other scsi driver), but this is on my home machine, and I'm currently at work. While a generic 7.1-PRERELEASE kernel had both of these compiled in (of course), and worked fine for me, I suspect our problems are related. I have an LSI Logic 150-4 SATA raid controller. -Cameron n Tuesday 13 January 2009 11:27:15 am Steve Polyack wrote: > Hello, > > We have a Dell PowerEdge 1850 server. It contains two PERC4 RAID > controllers. One is a PERC4e/Si, and the other is a PERC4/DC. Right > now we are running FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE, with a 36GB RAID-1 on the > PERC4e/Si (amr0), and both a 1TB RAID5 and a 136GB RAID1 on the > PERC4/DC(amr1). Both adapters are running the latest firmware revision. > > When we boot FreeBSD7.1 install media, the amr driver fails to detect > any volumes (disks) attached to amr0, the PERC4e/Si. However, it picks > up the attached disks on the PERC4/DC just fine. However, if I boot > 7.0-RELEASE install media, it picks up all of the attached volumes, > leading me to believe the issue is due to changes in the amr driver > between 7.0 and 7.1. During the 7.1 boot process, before probing disks, > we see the message "amr0: adapter is busy" show up twice. This also > does not occur on the 6.3, 6.4, or 7.0 releases. > > We also have another PE1850 with a very similar configuration, except > the two PERCs get probed in a different order, and it detects all of the > attached volumes without any issues. > > Any suggestions? These are semi-critical systems, so we aren't always > able to test things like this. But, we can schedule downtime once or > twice a week if necessary. > > -Steve Polyack > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
