Re: DAC960

From: Scott Lambert <lambert_at_lambertfam.org>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 16:58:59 -0400
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 09:25:30PM +0200, Dusan Kozic wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have DAC960 RAID and SCSI CD-ROM. When I boot FreeBSD 4.8 on this machine, 
> then it doesn't want to mount / partition autimatically.
 
I don't know what this is doing on -current but anyway....

You don't say what has changed on the machine.  Is this a new install?
At some point between FreeBSD 2.2 and 4.6 (don't ask) I could install
from the CD but not boot off the RAID disk later.  Changing a DAC960
BIOS option from 2GB to 8GB made it boot.

> I have problems with top, vmstat and memcontrol list command too.
> 
> triton# top
> top: nlist failed
> triton# vmstat
> vmstat: undefined symbols:
>  _kmemstatistics _bucket _zlist
> triton# memcontrol list
> memcontrol: can't size range descriptor array: Operation not supported
> triton#

That looks like the mundane kernel/world out of sync.

One suggestion based on your dmesg...

Have you disabled the bios on your Adaptec SCSI Adapter?  If not, it may
be loading before the DAC960 bios and only be looking for a bootable
disk on that controller.
 
> Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project.
> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
> 	The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0: Thu Apr  3 10:53:38 GMT 2003
>     root_at_freebsd-stable.sentex.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
> CPU: Pentium/P54C (133.31-MHz 586-class CPU)
> mlx0: <Mylex version 2 RAID interface> port 0x9000-0x907f irq 15 at device 2.0 on pci0
> mlx0: DAC960P/PD, 2 channels, firmware 2.73-0-00, 4MB RAM
> mlxd0: <Mylex System Drive> on mlx0
> mlxd0: 32768MB (67108864 sectors) RAID 5 (online)
> ahc0: <Adaptec aic7870 SCSI adapter> port 0xc00-0xcff mem 0x30000000-0x30000fff irq 11 at device 12.0 on pci0
> aic7870: Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/253 SCBs
> Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
> sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0
> sa0: <ARCHIVE IBM4326NP/RP  !D 5500> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device 
> sa0: 7.812MB/s transfers (7.812MHz, offset 15)
> 
> Manual root filesystem specification:
>   <fstype>:<device>  Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
>                        eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a
> cd0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0
> cd0: <IBM CDRM00203\\000\\000\\000\\000\\000!K BZ26> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device 
> cd0: 5.000MB/s transfers (5.000MHz, offset 15)
> cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present
>   ?                  List valid disk boot devices
>   <empty line>       Abort manual input
> 
> mountroot> 8\^H \^Hufs:/dev/mlxd0s1a
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/mlxd0s1a

-- 
Scott Lambert                    KC5MLE                       Unix SysAdmin
lambert_at_lambertfam.org      
Received on Tue Jul 01 2003 - 11:59:12 UTC

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