Fw: One more time : 4.4 Install hangs on RAID controller

[Craig Huckabee]

Forwarded from -stable per recommendations of others. Any help is
appreciated.

--Craig

----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Huckabee" <hu...@spawar.navy.mil>
To: <freebsd...@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 11:09 AM
Subject: One more time : 4.4 Install hangs on RAID controller

>
> I'm still stuck on this. Nothing I have tried seems to help, the
controller
> works fine under NT so it doesn't seem to be hardware related. Any help
is
> appreciated, I'm willing to spend the time and (if I can get approval) the
> money to fix this.
>
> Thanks,
> Craig
>
>
> >
> > I'm attempting to install FreeBSD-stable on a Micron NetFRAME 3100 - it
is
> a
> > dual Pentium II with an AMI MegaRAID Express controller. Looking at the
> > sources for the amr driver, this card (Series 762) appears to be
> supported.
> >
> > However, while booting from the install CD, the controller is detected
> > properly but the boot process stops once the logical disk is reported.
An
> > install without the RAID controller works fine.
> >
> > So, are only specific firmware versions of this controller supported ?
Is
> > there some option on the controller I need to adjust ?
> >
> > Any help is appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Craig
> >
> >

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[Craig Huckabee]

( Posted again per private e-mail suggestion that details would help)

I'm attempting to install FreeBSD on a Micron NetFRAME 3100 - it is a
dual Pentium II with an AMI MegaRAID Express 000 controller. Looking at the

sources for the amr driver, this card (Series 762) appears to be supported.

However, while booting from the install CD, the controller is detected
properly but the boot process stops once the logical disk is reported. An
install without the RAID controller works fine.

The adapter is correctly detected as a Series 762 by FreeBSD and flashing
the adapter BIOS to an older version didn't help - still hangs.

So, are only specific firmware versions of this controller supported ?

Is there some option on the controller I need to adjust (no I2O mode on this
controller) ?
It almost seems as if the driver is waiting for something - using an older
version of FreeBSD the install process still stops after detecting the
logical drive, but I can restart the system cleanly with Ctrl-Alt-Del (the
controller cache is flushed, etc, etc) The logical disk is reported as
being OK (not damaged or rebuilding) in the controller's BIOS utility.

This machine was running Windows NT with this controller so it doesn't
appear to be a hardware problem.

Any help is appreciated.

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