Re: Problems installing FreeBSD with 3ware 9500S-4LP

well you replied to yourself and made this a mess, I'll see what I can do
to trim it down :)

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Patrick Hurrelmann wrote:

> > > Whats the RAID config?
> >
> > I forgot to include that. Shame on me.
> > 4x 120GB, 7200rpm, 8mb chache WesternDigital Disks are configured as one Raid 5 array.
>
> Disk details: WDC WD1200JB-75GBB0

So 1 4-disk raid5. ok.

> > > > 5.1-Release
> > > > w ACPI: Loading twa.ko (binary distribution of 3ware.com for 5.2) in 		sysinstall failes.
> > > > w/o ACPI: same as w ACPI.
> > >
> > > I wouldn't expect this to work.
> >

> > I tried that, as download page on 3ware says (FreeBSD 5.1, but i
> > excpect that this is an error)

Yeah, I don't think thats right; Vinod said its been qualified on 5.2.
The kernel ABI's changed since 5.1.

> > > > 5.2-Release
> > > > w ACPI: loaded twa.ko in sysinstall.
> > > > 	install went ok, on next reboot it just halts after BTX-Loader.
> > > > 	I cannot load twa.ko in loader.
> > > > w/o ACPI: same as w ACPI.
> > >
> > > Hm, sounds like the loader is getting corrupted. Try booting the install
> > > CD, breaking out of the loader countdown and run these commands
> > > (untested):
> > >
> > > unload
> > > set rootdev=disk1s1a (or whatever disk you put freebsd on)
> > > boot /boot/kernel/kernel
> >
> > No, i think i didn't make it clearly enough. It halt on BTX-Loader.
> > I don't to the "real" loader. I don't see what modules it loads, etc.
> > I'll reboot an post the exact message i see.

I was asking if you can boot off a different media here.  Since you can
boot off the CDROM okay, I wanted you to use the CD's loader to boot the
on-disk system.  If that worked then the loader binary on disk was
probably corrupted.

> > twa.ko from 3ware dowload-site included new firmware. The controller
> > has been updated automatically.
> >
> twa firmware is 2.02.00.011
> twa bios is 2.02.01.037

Ah, they split it into runtime firmware and BIOS.  I was curious if there
was a new BIOS available, but it appears its a part of the driver package
now. Thats annoying; if you can't boot due to a BIOS problem, you can't
boot to upload a new BIOS.  Nice chicken-&-egg problem.

> > I have second ide-disk with a some day old current. I can mount the partitions created during install. All seems to be ok.
> >
> > I tried a install with twa.ko of current, but it panics with an
> > page-fault everytime i load the module through sysinstall.

Sounds like the module and kernel are mismatched here.

I'd suggest contacting 3ware at this point, since there is obviously a bug
in the 3ware BIOS.

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