Re: FreeBSD 6 (or 7) on a HP DL140 G3 SATA

From: Robert Watson <rwatson_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 11:47:21 +0000 (GMT)
On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, J. Martin Petersen wrote:

>> You can run the live CD or install FreeBSD
>> (6.2-RC1 or 7-CURRENT) onto the HD's, but when you boot from the disks,
>> the boot loader barfs:
>> 
>> -=-
>> int=0000000d  err=0000001a  efl=00030287  eip=0000291d
>> eax=1400000a  ebx=00000b3e  ecx=00000000  edx=0000c900
>> esi=00000d1c  edi=00000001  ebp=00000206  esp=00000200
>> cs=c900  ds=9a00  es=9a00    fs=0000  gs=0000  ss=9a00
>> cs:eip=cc 68 32 06 ff 34 e8 db-fc 83 c4 04 89 46 fe 5f
>>        5e c9 c3 55 8b ec 1e 33-c0 8e d8 a0 75 04 3c 00
>> ss:esp=1c 0d 02 00 00 00 34 02-d8 45 1c 0d 00 00 00 14
>>        00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00-1c 0d 02 00 00 00 00 00
>> BTX halted
>> -=-
>> 
>> Here is the relevant BIOS output from the controller:

I have two HP DL145 G3's, and I had identical crashes in the loader when using 
the amd64 loader on an older BIOS revision.  Upgrading the BIOS made the 
problem go away.  Upgrading proved to be a bit of a pain because the boxes 
don't have CDROM or floppy drives, and the HP firmware updater download is 
rather weird, but once it was updated (using a USB floppy drive) all was 
happiness.  Oddly, the i386 loader had no problem at all...

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge

>> 
>> -=-
>> LSI Logic Corp. MPT SAS BIOS
>> MPTBIOS-6.06.08.00 (2006.05.16)
>> Copyright 2000-2006 LSI Logic Corp.
>> 
>> 
>> SLOT ID  LUN VENDOR   PRODUCT          REVISION   CAPACITY
>> ---- --- --- -------- ---------------- ---------- ----------
>>   3          LSILogic SAS1068-IR       1.10.01.00
>> -=-
>> 
>> Has anyone gotten one of these to run FreeBSD from the HD's successfully?
>
> Yes; we got similar results until we upgraded the system BIOS and the 
> controller firmware (both are available somewhere on hp.com).
>
> We're now having a different problem; once -CURRENT (or 6.2-RC1) is installed 
> and running, the disk performance is abysmal. I/O-wise it is maxing out 
> around 6MB/sec, which seems far from impressive.
>
> We have tried both with and without RAID configured through the controller 
> (i.e., with RAID-1 and with just two seperate disks), and results are 
> identical.
>
> There does not seem to be any spurious interrupts, and there is no load on 
> the system when doing disk I/O. This is for -CURRENT as of yesterday evening 
> (after the latest commits to dev/mpt).
>
> Martin
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