Re: Problems with FreeBSD on Poweredge 6300

Nils Berzins wrote:
> Hi !
> 
> Our mother company donated us some used Dells (Poweredge 6300). Recently we
> started to move away from Redhat in favor of FreeBSD, so naturally I tried
> to install the FreeBSD on them, but the istallation process dies at:
> 
> 
>>Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
>>amrd0: <LSILogic MegaRAID logical drive> on amr0
>>amrd0: 25706 MB (52641792 sectors) RAID5 (optional)
>>GEOM: create disk amrd0 db=0xc6fa528c
>>md0: Preloading image </boot/mfsroot> 442360 bytes at 0xc09dff74
> 
> 
> Doing verbose boot reveals a little more information:
> 
> 
>>(probe50:ahc2:0:5:0): error 22
>>(probe50:ahc2:0:5:0): Unretryable error
>>(ahc2:A:5:0): Sending SDTR period c, offset f
>>(ahc2:A:5:0): Received SDTR period c, offset f
>>   Filtered to period c, offset f
>>ahc2: target 5 synchronous at 20.0MHz, offset = 0xf
>>(ahc2:A:5:0): Sending SDTR period c, offset f
>>(ahc2:A:5:0): Received SDTR period c, offset f
>>   Filtered to period c, offset f
> 
> 
> I also tried booting Redhat 9.0 and it works fine. Is there any hope for me
> getting this work, or should I just relax and go back to Linux ?   :-(

I have this same issue - Jung-uk Kim (jkim (at) niksun.com) sent me a 
patch, that made my life better  (below).  Something with the PERC 
controllers.  The only problem for me, was that I have a root partition 
on the PERC controller, so I can't boot up to patch it.  Anyway, there 
are ways to get the job done, but in the end, after sending emails to 
various people with no response, I put RedFat on it.  I wish I could 
have gone with FreeBSD, but I can't have a server that takes me 3 hours 
to get rebuilt.  Here's the patch he sent, maybe it will help you.


--- src/sys/dev/amr/amr.c.old	Wed Jan 15 17:03:05 2003
+++ src/sys/dev/amr/amr.c	Fri May  9 18:00:11 2003
_at__at_ -237,12 +237,14 _at__at_

      debug(2, "controller query complete");

+#ifdef AMR_SCSI_PASSTHROUGH
      /*
       * Attach our 'real' SCSI channels to CAM.
       */
      if (amr_cam_attach(sc))
  	return(ENXIO);
      debug(2, "CAM attach done");
+#endif

      /*
       * Create the control device.
_at__at_ -339,8 +341,10 _at__at_
  {
      struct amr_command_cluster	*acc;

+#ifdef AMR_SCSI_PASSTHROUGH
      /* detach from CAM */
      amr_cam_detach(sc);
+#endif

      /* cancel status timeout */
      untimeout(amr_periodic, sc, sc->amr_timeout);




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