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:




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,
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Re: Dell PERC5 (SAS 5) controller boot flr

[Paul Schmehl]

--On December 22, 2006 8:51:43 AM -0700 Thomas Kindig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:



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.

I have the same server, except for drive size.  I had two problems 
initially.  I had to update the driver for the Broadcomm NIC to solve a 
problem with hangs that required a full reboot to fix, and I had to update 
the usb driver to get DRAC to work in a virtual console.  I never had the 
problem you describe.


[...]
mpt0:  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  at ata0-master UDMA33

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


Here's what I see in dmesg:

ums0: Dell DRAC5, rev 1.10/0.00, addr 3, iclass 3/1
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
umass2: DELL  INC. DRAC5 VIRTUAL  MEDIA, rev 2.00/0.00, addr 4

mfid0:  on mfi0
mfid0: 69375MB (142082047 sectors) RAID

bce0:  mem 
0xf400-0xf

5ff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci9
bce0: ASIC ID 0x57081010; Revision (B1); PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz
miibus0:  on bce0
brgphy0:  on miibus0
brgphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 
1000baseTX

-FDX, auto
bce0: Ethernet address: 00:13:72:fb:2a:ad

Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/