BIOS != 5/i Firmware. You want to make sure you are running the latest firmware.
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 04:30:54PM +0100, Michael wrote: > Hi, > > Beavis schrieb: > > system is still good after I cvsup to -stable. my only concern is > > during bootup it takes around 1min. on the part that says "ipmi0 at > > mainbus0" but i guess this is minimal as long as it doesn't spit out > > that sd0 error again. > > Updated the bios on my 2950 too (2.1.1 now) but still can force the > error by creating a high IO load... this silly command was enough... got > to approx. file number 33 before it started throwing those errors. > > I=0 > while [ I -lt 300 ]; do > nice -n 20 dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/tmp/test/$I bs=1m count=100 > I=(($I+1)) > done > > Perc5/i SAS-raid controller firmware is 5.1.1-0040 which seems to be the > newest for this machine according to the Dell support page. > > > Michael