Re: poweredge 1850 won't boot 7.1? maybe LSI-related : amr0: adapter is busy

2009-04-18 Thread Jeroen Hofstee
I did some additional testing: 1) Installed 7.2-RC2 directly on the Perc 4e/Si H435 machine (RAID1) from a cd, this went fine. 2) Turned off, and placed one drive in the machine with Perc 4e/Si H430, boot went fine Checked install of 7.1-RELEASE from cd on the 4e/Si H435 machine, failed: no

poweredge 1850 won't boot 7.1? maybe LSI-related : amr0: adapter is busy

2009-04-17 Thread Jeroen Hofstee
Hello All, I encountered the same problem as reported to this list earlier, http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-February/048305.html, but then with 7.1-RELEASE-p4. Interestingly enough, FreeBSD booted fine on the machine installed (updated from 7.0 to 7.1-RELEASE-p4). This

Re: poweredge 1850 won't boot 7.1? maybe LSI-related : amr0: adapter is busy

2009-04-17 Thread Scott Long
The just-released 7.2-RC2 should fix this problem. Please let me know ASAP if it works for you. Scott Jeroen Hofstee wrote: Hello All, I encountered the same problem as reported to this list earlier, http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-February/048305.html, but then with

Re: poweredge 1850 won't boot 7.1? maybe LSI-related : amr0: adapter is busy

2009-04-17 Thread Jeroen Hofstee
I did the following to verify: 1) Installed 7.2-RC2 on the Perc 4e/Si H430 machine (RAID1), this went fine. 2) Turned off, and placed one drive in the machine with Perc 4e/Si H435, boot went fine and no long delays after amr0 So the problem as I encountered with 7.1-RELEASE-p4 is not

Re: poweredge 1850 won't boot 7.1? maybe LSI-related : amr0: adapter is busy

2009-02-16 Thread Olivier Mueller
On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 10:38 -0500, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: There's already discussion about this in the archives. We're aware and working on it. Set: /boo/loader.conf kern.cam.scsi_delay=2 As a work-around for now. Many thanks for your answer, it fixed the problem for now. Now it

Re: poweredge 1850 won't boot 7.1? maybe LSI-related : amr0: adapter is busy

2009-02-16 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
amr0: LSILogic PERC 4e/Si Firmware 521X, BIOS H430, 256MB RAM amr0: delete logical drives supported by controller Any time! NOTE: You're using the 4e/Si, which we have as well. We're experiencing random crashes on the 1850/8th gen, as a result of a (believed) DMA bug introduced into 7.x

Re: poweredge 1850 won't boot 7.1? maybe LSI-related : amr0: adapter is busy

2009-02-16 Thread Steve Polyack
Brian A. Seklecki wrote: NOTE: You're using the 4e/Si, which we have as well. We're experiencing random crashes on the 1850/8th gen, as a result of a (believed) DMA bug introduced into 7.x Just to note, we are only seeing these issues in combination with megarc (/usr/ports/sysutils/megarc)

poweredge 1850 won't boot 7.1? maybe LSI-related : amr0: adapter is busy

2009-02-11 Thread Olivier Mueller
Hello, This afternoon I wanted to upgrade to 7.1 two good old dell PowerEdge servers which were running FreeBSD 6.x. It went fine and quickly on the poweredge 1950, but it failed completely on the poweredge 1850. Facts: - boot cd and setup / operation of freebsd 6.x or 7.0 is fine Message

Re: poweredge 1850 won't boot 7.1? maybe LSI-related : amr0: adapter is busy

2009-02-11 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 15:51 +0100, Olivier Mueller wrote: Hello, This afternoon I wanted to upgrade to 7.1 two good old dell PowerEdge servers which were running FreeBSD 6.x. It went fine and quickly on the There's already discussion about this in the archives. We're aware and working on