Re: Cannot install onto mpt-driven drive

On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 09:13, Divacky Roman wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 04:47:26PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 16:40, Doug White wrote:
> > > On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I just got a new Dell Precision 360 workstation with an LSILogic SCSI
> > > > controller:
> > > >
> > > > mpt0: <LSILogic 1030 Ultra4 Adapter> port 0xcd00-0xcdff mem
> > > > 0xfe780000-0xfe79ffff,0xfe760000-0xfe77ffff irq 10 at device 3.0 on pci2
> > > > mpt1: <LSILogic 1030 Ultra4 Adapter> port 0xce00-0xceff mem
> > > > 0xfe7x0000-0xfe7dffff,0xfe7a0000-0xfe7bffff irq 9 at device 3.1 on pci2
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > > mpt1: time out on request index = 0xfe sequence = 0x000001a0
> > > 
> > > Have you checked termination and cabling? Also make sure you are not using
> > > the integrated mirroring capability -- its not supported under FreeBSD, at
> > > least in my tests.
> > 
> > This is a Dell-manufactured, out-of-the-box machine (and the Windows XP
> > Pro that came on it works just fine, I guess).  There is only one drive,
> > and I'm not using any RAID.  The exact same configuration works under
> > -STABLE.  As I mentioned in a follow-up, I found a patch that may do the
> > trick for me.  I'm just about done with my custom 5.2.1-RELEASE, so I'll
> > know in a bit.
> > 
> > Thanks for following up, though.
> 
> I have big "ME TOO". I tried to install fbsd 5.2.1 to scsi_at_mpt with the exact
> same problem... I dont think its hw issue since there was linux before and it
> worked (I suppose changing CD in atapi cd-rom drive doesnt break scsi
> controller)

No, the problem was definitely the bug I mentioned in my follow-up.  I
have a custom 5.2.1-RELEASE ISO that will work just fine.  If you decide
to upgrade beyond 5.2.1-RELEASE, you will also need to re-patch the
mpt(4) driver.  I'm currently running 5.3-BETA, and it works just fine.

http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/5.2.1-RELEASE-i386-miniinst.iso
http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/mpt.diff

Joe

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