Dell PERC5 (SAS 5) controller boot flr

[Thomas Kindig]

Drive is detected and install is successful, however on reboot the 
drive drops out. Cannot boot in any mode.


This is a new Dell PowerEdge 1950 server with a single 160G ATA HD, 
but with a PERC 5/i controller. I have been to the Dell Support 
boards, but this OS is not supported so they are not obliged to answer.


boot -s fails at the same point. Safe mode gets me to a frozen login 
prompt. I see the DRAC 5 Virtual Media drives listed during the boot, 
but I am not sure how to get a trace of the boot sequence to supply 
here, given the fact that I never mount a file system.



Dell SAS 5 Host Bus Adaptor BIOS
MPTBIOS - 6.06.00.02 2006.04.05
LSI Logic Corp.


HBA   ID  LUN  VENDOR  PRODUCTREVISION   CAPACITY
 ___ ___ ___ ___ __  ___
000 ATA  ST3160812AS J152587 MB
000 DPBACKPLANE  1.00
0 LSILogicSAS1860-IT8.06.48.00


Dell Corp. MPT boot ROM successfully installed!


[...]
mpt0: LSILogic SAS/SATA Adaptor port 0xec00-0xecff msm 
0xfc000-0xfc4f,0xfc4e irq 64 at device 0.0 on pc12

mpt0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
mpt0: MPI Version=1.5.12.8
[...]
ums0: Dell DRAC5, rev 1.18/0,00 not supported
ums0: X report 0x0002 not supported
device_attach: ums0 attach returned 6
umass0: DELL  INC. DRAC5 VIRTUAL   MEDIA, rev 2.00/0.00, addr 4
umass1: DELL  INC. DRAC5 VIRTUAL   MEDIA, rev 2.00/0.00, addr 4
[...]
mpt0: mpt_cam_event: 0x16
mpt0: Unhandled Event Notify Frame. Event 0x16 (ACK not required).
unknown: timeout waiting for read DRQ
bce0: link state changed to DOWN
bce1: link state changed to DOWN
acd0: CDRW HL-DT-STCD-RW/DVD-ROM GCC-4244N/B101 at ata0-master UDMA33


(Sorry for the truncated details, but I shot a video and typed in the 
parts that seem most relevant).



Dropping to boot prompt I list the loaded modules and see


[...] mpt_raid.1 mpt.1 mpt_cam.1 mpt_core.1 [...]


For grins, loaded mfi, boot -s, same result.


Thomas Kindig
Technology Support
White Sands Federal Credit Union
505-647-4578

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Re: Dell PERC5 (SAS 5) controller boot flr

[Thomas Kindig]

At 03:00 PM 12/22/2006, Paul Schmehl wrote:
--On December 22, 2006 8:51:43 AM -0700 Thomas Kindig 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


snip

I'm not clear on why you have PERC5/i with only one drive.  Is the 
drive partitioned and set up with RAID1?


I was thinking I might avoid proprietary controller problems by 
specifying a PE 1950 system with no HW RAID. Second mistake was not 
studying the HW list myownself. I got the same controller, no RAID, 
and now I learn that many shops are running FreeBSD fine on this 
controller with multiple drives and RAID.


I am hoping to remedy the situation by ordering a second drive and 
enabling, setting up RAID0.



'Hope this helps,
Thomas
WSFCU Help Desk
505-647-4578

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